Large‐scale digitization projects such as# ScanAllFishes and oVert are generating high‐
resolution microCT scans of vertebrates by the thousands. Data from these projects are …

As a means of improving analysis of biological shapes, we propose an algorithm for
sampling a Riemannian manifold by sequentially selecting points with maximum uncertainty …

A statistical pipeline for identifying physical features that differentiate classes of 3D shapes
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Clustering in high-dimensions poses many statistical challenges. While traditional distance-
based clustering methods are computationally feasible, they lack probabilistic interpretation …

Miniaturized amphibians of the genus Brachycephalus are phenotypically diverse. The
species of Brachycephalus have bufoniform or leptodactyliform Baupläne and any of three …

We develop a geometric framework, based on the classical theory of fibre bundles, to
characterize the cohomological nature of a large class of synchronization-type problems in …

Kernel-based nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods, such as Local Linear Embedding
(LLE) and Laplacian Eigenmaps, rely heavily upon pairwise distances or similarity scores …

We present results of a long-term team collaboration of mathematicians and biologists. We
focus on building a mathematical framework for the shape space constituted by a collection …

Skull shape analysis provides useful information on wildlife ecology and potential local
adaptations. Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) often differentiate between …

This paper derives rates of convergence of approximations of observers and controllers
arising in the native space embedding method for adaptive estimation and control of a class …