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This article introduces a novel approach to constructing a topometric map that allows for efficient navigation and decision-making in mobile robotics applications. The method generates the topometric map from a 2D grid-based map. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Scott Fredriksson , Akshit Saradagi , George Nikolakopoulos

The need to compute the intersections between a line and a high-order curve or surface arises in a large number of finite element applications. Such intersection problems are easy to formulate but hard to solve robustly. We introduce a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Xiao Xiao , Laurent Buse , Fehmi Cirak

In many areas of applied geometric/numeric computational mathematics, including geo-mapping, computer vision, computer graphics, finite element analysis, medical imaging, geometric design, and solid modeling, one has to compute incidences,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alberto Paoluzzi , Vadim Shapiro , Antonio DiCarlo , Francesco Furiani , Giulio Martella , Giorgio Scorzelli

The article proposes a new method for finding the triangle-triangle intersection in 3D space, based on the use of computer graphics algorithms -- cutting off segments on the plane when moving and rotating the beginning of the coordinate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Irina Bolodurina , Georgii Nigmatulin , Denis Parfenov

We are interested in geometric approximation by parameterization of two-dimensional multiple-component shapes, in particular when the number of components is a priori unknown. Starting a standard method based on successive shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-09 Pierre Bonnelie , Loïc Bourdin , Fabien Caubet , Olivier Ruatta

This paper considers the collision avoidance problem in a multi-agent multi-obstacle framework. The originality in solving this intensively studied problem resides in the proposed geometrical view combined with differential flatness for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Florin Stoican , Vlad-Mihai Ivanusca , Ionela Prodan

This paper attacks the following problem. We are given a large number $N$ of rectangles in the plane, each with horizontal and vertical sides, and also a number $r<N$. The given list of $N$ rectangles may contain duplicates. The problem is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-28 David B. A. Epstein , Mike Paterson

Boolean operations of geometric models is an essential issue in computational geometry. In this paper, we develop a simple and robust approach to perform Boolean operations on closed and open triangulated surfaces. Our method mainly has two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Gang Mei , John C. Tipper

We give several algorithms addressing computations of intersections of conjugate subgroups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Rita Gitik

B\'ezier curves provide the basic building blocks of graphic design in 2D. In this paper, we port B\'ezier curves to manifolds. We support the interactive drawing and editing of B\'ezier splines on manifold meshes with millions of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Claudio Mancinelli , Giacomo Nazzaro , Fabio Pellacini , Enrico Puppo

We introduce new manifold-based splines that are able to exactly reproduce B-splines on unstructured surface meshes. Such splines can be used in isogeometric analysis (IGA) to represent smooth surfaces of arbitrary topology. Since prevalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Qiaoling Zhang , Thomas Takacs , Fehmi Cirak

Topology reasoning aims to provide a precise understanding of road scenes, enabling autonomous systems to identify safe and efficient routes. In this paper, we present RoadPainter, an innovative approach for detecting and reasoning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhongxing Ma , Shuang Liang , Yongkun Wen , Weixin Lu , Guowei Wan

The problem deals with an exact calculation of the intersection area of a circle arbitrary placed on a grid of square shaped elements with gaps between them (finite fill factor). Usually an approximation is used for the calculation of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Dmitrij Gendler , Christian Eisele , Dirk Seiffer , Norbert Wendelstein

A fundamental problem in computer vision is boundary estimation, where the goal is to delineate the boundary of objects in an image. In this paper, we propose a method which jointly incorporates geometric and topological information within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Hengrui Luo , Justin Strait

Multiscale mixed methods based on non-overlapping domain decompositions can efficiently handle the solution of significant subsurface flow problems in very heterogeneous formations of interest to the industry, especially when implemented on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Dilong Zhou , Rafael Guiraldello , Felipe Pereira

Computing the diameter of the intersection graphs of objects is a basic problem in computational geometry. Previous works showed that the complexity of computing the diameter mainly depends on the object types: for unit disks and squares in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Timothy M. Chan , Hsien-Chih Chang , Jie Gao , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Hung Le , Da Wei Zheng

This paper proposes a method for computing the visible occluding contours of subdivision surfaces. The paper first introduces new theory for contour visibility of smooth surfaces. Necessary and sufficient conditions are introduced for when…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Chenxi Liu , Pierre Bénard , Aaron Hertzmann , Shayan Hoshyari

Stiffener layout optimization of complex surfaces is fulfilled within the framework of topology optimization. A combined parameterization method is developed in two aspects. One is to parameterize the material distribution of the stiffener…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Weihong Zhang , Shengqi Feng

A complete treatment of the intersections of two geodesics on the surface of an ellipsoid of revolution is given. With a suitable metric for the distances between intersections, bounds are placed on their spacing. This leads to fast and…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Charles F. F. Karney

The problem of multiple surface clustering is a challenging task, particularly when the surfaces intersect. Available methods such as Isomap fail to capture the true shape of the surface nearby the intersection and result in incorrect…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-07 Amir Babaeian