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48 results for shape preservation

Paper proves conjecture about star-shaped curves evolving under GAPF, but not always preserves star shape.

problem What conditions guarantee global existence of Gage's area-preserving flow for nonconvex initial curves?
method Using Dittberner's singularity analysis theory, constructed a ``flying wing'' curve to show limitations.
result Gage's area-preserving flow does not always preserve star-shapedness of evolving curves.

LIMP learns latent shapes with metric preservation, improving generative models.

problem Insufficient training data for high-fidelity latent representations.
method Metric preservation as a prior, geometric distortion criterion, geodesic loss.
result Synthetic samples of higher quality achieved through metric preservation.

Complex functional maps link tangent bundles, preserving orientation and angles.

problem Linking tangent bundles for orientation-aware correspondence.
method Endow tangent bundles with complex structures to enable robust transfer of tangent vector fields.
result Establishes orientation-aware correspondence without relying on descriptors or extra regularization.

The paper studies a curve flow preserving anisotropic length for convex curves, leading to a homothetic limit.

problem Anisotropic length preservation in curve deformation.
method A curve flow that maintains anisotropic length, analyzed for convex closed curves.
result Convex curves evolve to homothetic limits of Wulff shapes as time approaches infinity.

The paper studies curvature measures and volume-preserving flows on convex bodies.

problem Characterizing and understanding convex bodies through anisotropic curvature measures.
method Developed anisotropic curvature measures, used Minkowski formulas and Heintze-Karcher inequalities, and analyzed volume-preserving flows.
result Characterized Wulff shapes via anisotropic curvature measures and proved convergence of volume-preserving flows.

Study proves a new formula for capillary hypersurfaces and shows a flow converging to a special shape.

problem Understanding the behavior of capillary hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space.
method Developed a volume-preserving flow starting from a star-shaped initial hypersurface and proved its long-time existence and convergence.
result The flow converges to a θθ-totally umbilical cap, which is an energy minimizer for a given enclosed volume.

The paper proposes a deep learning approach to efficiently approximate diffeomorphisms for shape alignment.

problem Finding optimal reparameterizations of shapes for computing geodesic distances.
method The authors develop a neural network-based algorithm to construct approximations of diffeomorphisms using PyTorch.
result The proposed method achieves universal approximation properties and bounds on Lipschitz constants for the constructed diffeomorphisms.

New neural network models extreme value distributions with preserved shape constraints.

problem Modeling multivariate extreme value distributions with preserved shape constraints.
method d-max-decreasing neural network architecture for non-parametric calibration and generation of MEVs.
result The proposed architecture approximates the dependence structure of MEVs at parametric rate and preserves essential shape constraints.

An algorithm preserves topological features in dimensionality reduction.

problem Preserving topological features in dimensionality reduction.
method Simulated annealing for finding a linear projection preserving persistent homology.
result Measures of topological equivalence between filtrations.

A new method for analyzing shapes and forms using additive models on manifolds.

problem Analyzing shapes and forms under geometric transformations.
method Extending generalized additive regression to models for shapes/forms using squared geodesic distance and Riemannian L2L_2-Boosting algorithm.
result Automated model selection and intuitive visualization of covariate effects in shape/form space.

The success of various applications including robotics, digital content creation, and visualization demand a structured and abstract representation of the 3D world from limited sensor data. Inspired by the nature of human perception of 3D shapes as a collection of simple parts, we explore such an abstract shape represe…

2017-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New method uses cluster shapes to improve track finding in particle collisions.

problem Combining timing and additional detector information for efficient track finding.
method Neural networks to analyze cluster shapes for track seeding.
result Cluster shapes reduce fake combinatorial backgrounds while maintaining high track efficiency.

A horospherical torus about a cusp of a hyperbolic manifold inherits a Euclidean similarity structure, called a cusp shape. We bound the change in cusp shape when the hyperbolic structure of the manifold is deformed via cone deformation preserving the cusp. The bounds are in terms of the change in structure in a neighb…

2004-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

RCLA reduces noise in topological data analysis, preserving essential structure.

problem Noise in large datasets obscures topological features in persistent homology.
method Grid-based RCLA integrates data reduction and denoising with a threshold parameter.
result RCLA provides a theoretical guarantee and automatic parameter selection.

The chapter reviews metrics for comparing curves, focusing on quotient elastic and square root velocity metrics.

problem Comparing and analyzing shapes of curves.
method Construction and theoretical properties of quotient elastic metrics, special case of square root velocity metric, numerical approaches for estimation.
result Simplified expression for the square root velocity metric distance.

Modeling functional data, this study uncovers the size-and-shape of functions under noisy observations.

problem Uncertainty in recovering a fixed effect function from noisy observations.
method Bayesian functional mixed model with priors on unitary transformations.
result It is possible to recover the size-and-shape of a square-integrable function μμ.

The paper maps two types of hyperkähler manifolds and identifies their symplectic structures.

problem Mapping and identifying symplectic structures of two types of hyperkähler manifolds.
method Produced a map from star-shaped quiver varieties to Higgs bundle moduli spaces, verified stability, and showed it is a homeomorphism.
result Identified natural holomorphic symplectic structures on the two spaces.

Study anisotropic flow for capillary hypersurfaces, proving new inequalities.

problem Anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces and their properties.
method Anisotropic volume-preserving mean curvature flow, new approach for strictly convex initial hypersurfaces.
result Established new Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for strictly convex anisotropic capillary hypersurfaces.

Given a polyhedral surface, assume that it is prohibited to change the shape and size of any face but it is permissible to change the dihedral angles between the faces. A polyhedral surface is said to be flexible if it is possible to change its shape under the above restrictions. We prove that flexible polyhedral surfa…

2001-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies the free elastic flow of closed curves and finds their asymptotic shape converges to a circle.

problem Challenges in studying the asymptotic behavior of the free elastic flow for closed curves.
method Analysis of the free elastic flow as an L2L^2-gradient flow for Euler's elastic energy.
result An appropriate rescaling of initial curves geometrically close to circles converges to a unique round circle.

In this paper, we classify all of the five-sided three-dimensional hyperbolic polyhedra with one ideal vertex, which have the shape of a triangular prism. We show how to find each such polyhedron in the upper half-space model by considering lines and circles in the plane. Finally, we give matrix generators in $\mathrm{…

2018-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we explicitly construct large classes of incommensurable hyperbolic knot complements with the same volume and the same initial (complex) length spectrum. Furthermore, we show that these knot complements are the only knot complements in their respective commensurabiltiy classes by analyzing their cusp sha…

2014-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines evolving star-shaped hypersurfaces in hyperbolic spaces, influenced by ambient geometry.

problem Evolution of star-shaped hypersurfaces in hyperbolic spaces.
method Nonhomogeneous expanding curvature flows in hyperbolic spaces.
result The asymptotic behavior of the flow depends on the ambient space's geometry, leading to different limiting metrics.

New theorem shows shapes close to balls, flow converges to balls in 2D and 3D.

problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of volume-preserving mean curvature flow.
method Proved a new quantitative Alexandrov theorem and used it to show flow convergence.
result Weak solutions of volume-preserving mean curvature flow converge to disjoint balls in R^2 and R^3.