Describing shapes by geometrical-topological properties of real functions

S Biasotti, L De Floriani, B Falcidieno… - ACM Computing …, 2008‏ - dl.acm.org
Differential topology, and specifically Morse theory, provide a suitable setting for formalizing
and solving several problems related to shape analysis. The fundamental idea behind …

A practical approach to Morse-Smale complex computation: Scalability and generality

A Gyulassy, PT Bremer, B Hamann… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Morse-Smale (MS) complex has proven to be a useful tool in extracting and visualizing
features from scalar-valued data. However, efficient computation of the MS complex for large …

Analysis of large-scale scalar data using hixels

D Thompson, JA Levine, JC Bennett… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the greatest challenges for today's visualization and analysis communities is the
massive amounts of data generated from state of the art simulations. Traditionally, the …

Parallel computation of 2D Morse-Smale complexes

N Shivashankar, M Senthilnathan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Morse-Smale complex is a useful topological data structure for the analysis and
visualization of scalar data. This paper describes an algorithm that processes all mesh …

Morse complexes for shape segmentation and homological analysis: discrete models and algorithms

L De Floriani, U Fugacci, F Iuricich… - Computer graphics …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Morse theory offers a natural and mathematically‐sound tool for shape analysis and
understanding. It allows studying the behavior of a scalar function defined on a manifold …

An entropy-based persistence barcode

H Chintakunta, T Gentimis, R Gonzalez-Diaz… - Pattern Recognition, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In persistent homology, the persistence barcode encodes pairs of simplices meaning birth
and death of homology classes. Persistence barcodes depend on the ordering of the …

Efficient computation of Morse-Smale complexes for three-dimensional scalar functions

A Gyulassy, V Natarajan, V Pascucci… - IEEE transactions on …, 2007‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Morse-Smale complex is an efficient representation of the gradient behavior of a scalar
function, and critical points paired by the complex identify topological features and their …

[PDF][PDF] Homological algebra and data

R Ghrist - Math. Data, 2018‏ - math.upenn.edu
These lectures are a quick primer on the basics of applied algebraic topology with emphasis
on applications to data. In particular, the perspectives of (elementary) homological algebra …

A one‐dimensional homologically persistent skeleton of an unstructured point cloud in any metric space

V Kurlin - Computer Graphics Forum, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Real data are often given as a noisy unstructured point cloud, which is hard to visualize. The
important problem is to represent topological structures hidden in a cloud by using skeletons …

Computing Morse-Smale complexes with accurate geometry

A Gyulassy, PT Bremer… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Topological techniques have proven highly successful in analyzing and visualizing scientific
data. As a result, significant efforts have been made to compute structures like the Morse …