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Point cloud reconstruction from raw point cloud has been an important topic in computer graphics for decades, especially due to its high demand in modeling and rendering applications. An important way to solve this problem is establishing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hui Tian , Kai Xu

A method is presented for computing all the affine equivalences between two rational ruled surfaces defined by rational parametrizations that works directly in parametric rational form, i.e. without computing or making use of the implicit…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Juan Gerardo Alcázar , Emily Quintero

A $\textit{polygonal curve}$ is a collection of $m$ connected line segments specified as the linear interpolation of a list of points $\{p_0, p_1, \ldots, p_m\}$. These curves may be obtained by sampling points from an oriented curve in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Marcella Manivel , Milena Silva , Robert Thompson

New iterative methods for solving linear equations are presented that are easy to use, generalize good existing methods, and appear to be faster. The new algorithms mix two kinds of linear recurrence formulas. Older methods have either high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Joseph F. Grcar

We propose a new formulation for integrating over smooth curves and surfaces that are described by their closest point mappings. Our method is designed for curves and surfaces that are not defined by any explicit parameterization and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Catherine Kublik , Richard Tsai

We propose a novel approach to the problem of polynomial approximation of rational B\'ezier triangular patches with prescribed boundary control points. The method is very efficient thanks to using recursive properties of the bivariate dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Stanisław Lewanowicz , Paweł Keller , Paweł Woźny

Recently, the butterfly approximation scheme and hierarchical approximations have been proposed for the efficient computation of integral transforms with oscillatory and with asymptotically smooth kernels. Combining both approaches, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Stefan Kunis , Ines Melzer

We discuss efficient conversion algorithms for orthogonal polynomials. We describe a known conversion algorithm from an arbitrary orthogonal basis to the monomial basis, and deduce a new algorithm of the same complexity for the converse…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Alin Bostan , Bruno Salvy , Éric Schost

We introduce a continuous domain framework for the recovery of a planar curve from a few samples. We model the curve as the zero level set of a trigonometric polynomial. We show that the exponential feature maps of the points on the curve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Qing Zou , Sunrita Poddar , Mathews Jacob

In this work I present a technique of construction and fast evaluation of a family of cubic polynomials for analytic smoothing and graphical rendering of particles trajectories for flows in a generic geometry. The principal result of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Gianluca Argentini

In this paper we prove that the problem of deciding contractibility of an arbitrary closed curve on the boundary of a 3-manifold is in NP. We emphasize that the manifold and the curve are both inputs to the problem. Moreover, our algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Erin Wolf Chambers , Francis Lazarus , Arnaud de Mesmay , Salman Parsa

We consider space-saving versions of several important operations on univariate polynomials, namely power series inversion and division, division with remainder, multi-point evaluation, and interpolation. Now-classical results show that…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Pascal Giorgi , Bruno Grenet , Daniel S. Roche

We propose OptCtrlPoints, a data-driven framework designed to identify the optimal sparse set of control points for reproducing target shapes using biharmonic 3D shape deformation. Control-point-based 3D deformation methods are widely…

We show that computing even very coarse approximations of critical points is intractable for simple classes of nonconvex functions. More concretely, we prove that if there exists a polynomial-time algorithm that takes as input a polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall

In this paper we provide, first, a general symbolic algorithm for computing the symmetries of a given rational surface, based on the classical differential invariants of surfaces, i.e. Gauss curvature and mean curvature. In practice, the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Juan Juan Gerardo Alcázar , Carlos Hermoso , Hüsnü Anıl Çoban , Uğur Gözütok

This paper designs an alogrithm to compute the minimal combinations of finite sets in Euclidean spaces, and applys the algorithm of study the moment maps and geometric invariant stability of hypersurfaces. The classical example of cubic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Dun Liang

In this paper, we study the computation of curvatures at the singular points of algebraic curves and surfaces. The idea is to convert the problem to compute the curvatures of the corresponding regular parametric curves and surfaces, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Chong-Jun Li , Ren-Hong Wang

In this work we describe a fast and stable algorithm for the computation of the orthogonal moments of an image. Indeed, orthogonal moments are characterized by a high discriminative power, but some of their possible formulations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-21 C. Di Ruberto , L. Putzu , G. Rodriguez

We refine the bit complexity analysis of an algorithm for the computation of at least one point per connected component of a smooth real algebraic set, yielding exponential speedup (with respect to the number of variables) compared to prior…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jesse Elliott , Mark Giesbrecht , Edern Gillot , Mohab Safey El Din , Éric Schost

The reduction of constraints to obtain minimal representations of sets is a very common problem in many engineering applications. While well-established methodologies exist for the case of linear constraints, the problem of how to detect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Andres Cotorruelo , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Daniel R. Ramírez , Daniel Limon , Emanuele Garone