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The Delaunay triangulation (DT) is one of the most common and useful triangulations of point sets $P$ in the plane. DT is not unique when $P$ is degenerate, specifically when it contains quadruples of co-circular points. One way to achieve…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Michael Khanimov , Micha Sharir

For many fundamental problems in computational topology, such as unknot recognition and $3$-sphere recognition, the existence of a polynomial-time solution remains unknown. A major algorithmic tool behind some of the best known algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Benjamin A. Burton , Alexander He

Let $\mathbb{R}$ be the field of real numbers. We consider the problem of computing the real isolated points of a real algebraic set in $\mathbb{R}^n$ given as the vanishing set of a polynomial system. This problem plays an important role…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Huu Phuoc Le , Mohab Safey El Din , Timo de Wolff

This paper introduces and demonstrates a computational pipeline for the statistical analysis of shape graph datasets, namely geometric networks embedded in 2D or 3D spaces. Unlike traditional abstract graphs, our purpose is not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Murad Hossen , Demetrio Labate , Nicolas Charon

While previous studies have demonstrated successful 3D object shape completion with a sufficient number of points, they often fail in scenarios when a few points, e.g. tens of points, are observed. Surprisingly, via entropy analysis, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xianzu Wu , Xianfeng Wu , Tianyu Luan , Yajing Bai , Zhongyuan Lai , Junsong Yuan

This article demonstrates how an understanding of the geometry of a family of cost functions can be used to develop efficient numerical algorithms for real-time optimisation. Crucially, it is not the geometry of the individual functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Jonathan H. Manton

It is well known that a three dimensional (closed, connected and compact) manifold is obtained by identifying boundary faces from a polyhedron P. The study of (\partial P)/~, the boundary \partial P with the polygonal faces identified in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Nikitin

3D dense reconstruction refers to the process of obtaining the complete shape and texture features of 3D objects from 2D planar images. 3D reconstruction is an important and extensively studied problem, but it is far from being solved. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Yangming Li

We show how any dataset of any modality (time-series, images, sound...) can be approximated by a well-behaved (continuous, differentiable...) scalar function with a single real-valued parameter. Building upon elementary concepts from chaos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Laurent Boué

In this paper, we revisit the classical representation of 3D point clouds as linear shape models. Our key insight is to leverage deep learning to represent a collection of shapes as affine transformations of low-dimensional linear shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Romain Loiseau , Tom Monnier , Mathieu Aubry , Loïc Landrieu

We propose a new data structure to compute the Delaunay triangulation of a set of points in the plane. It combines good worst case complexity, fast behavior on real data, and small memory occupation. The location structure is organized into…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olivier Devillers

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly transformed the field of 3D shape generation, enabling the synthesis of complex, diverse, and semantically meaningful 3D objects. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Nicolas Caytuiro , Ivan Sipiran

For every Gaussian kernel density estimator $f(x)=\sum_i a_i \exp(-\lVert x-x_i\rVert^2/2h^2)$ associated to a point cloud $\mathcal{D}=\{x_1,...,x_N\}\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, we define a nested family of closed subspaces…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Erik Carlsson , John Carlsson

This paper provides triangular spherical designs for the complex unit sphere $\Omega^d$ by exploiting the natural correspondence between the complex unit sphere in $d$ dimensions and the real unit sphere in $2d-1$. The existence of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-25 Yu Guang Wang , Robert S. Womersley , Hau-Tieng Wu , Wei-Hsuan Yu

We enhance the approximation capabilities of algebraic polynomials by composing them with homeomorphisms. This composition yields families of functions that remain dense in the space of continuous functions, while enabling more accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Álvaro Fernández Corral , Yahya Saleh

This note wants to explain how to obtain meaningful pictures of (possibly high-dimensional) convex polytopes, triangulated manifolds, and other objects from the realm of geometric combinatorics such as tight spans of finite metric spaces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-16 Ewgenij Gawrilow , Michael Joswig , Thilo Rörig , Nikolaus Witte

This paper presents how the space of spheres and shelling may be used to delete a point from a $d$-dimensional triangulation efficiently. In dimension two, if k is the degree of the deleted vertex, the complexity is O(k log k), but we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Olivier Devillers

The term GreenAI refers to a novel approach to Deep Learning, that is more aware of the ecological impact and the computational efficiency of its methods. The promoters of GreenAI suggested the use of Floating Point Operations (FLOPs) as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Andrea Asperti , Davide Evangelista , Moreno Marzolla

It is important to have fast and effective methods for simplifying 3-manifold triangulations without losing any topological information. In theory this is difficult: we might need to make a triangulation super-exponentially more complex…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-06-16 Benjamin A. Burton

We study the algebraic boundary of a convex semi-algebraic set via duality in convex and algebraic geometry. We generalize the correspondence of facets of a polytope to the vertices of the dual polytope to general semi-algebraic convex…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Rainer Sinn