Publications related to Cardinal Hermite Exponential Splines: Theoretical Insights and Applications to Active Contours

Retraction-based numerical methods for continuation, interpolation and time integration on manifolds

The goal of this thesis is the development and the analysis of numerical methods for problems where the unknown is a curve on a smooth manifold. In particular, the thesis is structured around the three following problems: homotopy continuation, curve inter ...

EPFL2023

Comparison of Three Imputation Methods for Groundwater Level Timeseries

Andrea Rinaldo

This study compares three imputation methods applied to the field observations of hydraulic head in subsurface hydrology. Hydrogeological studies that analyze the timeseries of groundwater elevations often face issues with missing data that may mislead bot ...

MDPI2023

Region Extraction in Mesh Intersection

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Emiliano Cirillo

Region extraction is a very common task in both Computer Science and Engineering with several applications in object recognition and motion analysis, among others. Most of the literature focuses on regions delimited by straight lines, often in the special ...

2023

Preserving the positivity of the deformation gradient determinant in intergrid interpolation by combining RBFs and SVD: Application to cardiac electromechanics

Alfio Quarteroni, Francesco Regazzoni

The accurate, robust and efficient transfer of the deformation gradient tensor between meshes of different resolution is crucial in cardiac electromechanics simulations. This paper presents a novel method that combines rescaled localized Radial Basis Funct ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Through-Plane Super-Resolution With Autoencoders in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Developing Human Brain

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Hamza Kebiri, Gabriel Girard, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez

Fetal brain diffusion magnetic resonance images (MRI) are often acquired with a lower through-plane than in-plane resolution. This anisotropy is often overcome by classical upsampling methods such as linear or cubic interpolation. In this work, we employ a ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Application of optimal spline subspaces for the removal of spurious outliers in isogeometric discretizations

Espen Sande

We show that isogeometric Galerkin discretizations of eigenvalue problems related to the Laplace operator subject to any standard type of homogeneous boundary conditions have no outliers in certain optimal spline subspaces. Roughly speaking, these optimal ...

2022

Variational Methods For Continuous-Domain Inverse Problems: the Quest for the Sparsest Solution

Thomas Jean Debarre

The goal of this thesis is to study continuous-domain inverse problems for the reconstruction of sparse signals and to develop efficient algorithms to solve such problems computationally. The task is to recover a signal of interest as a continuous function ...

EPFL2022

Continuous-Domain Signal Reconstruction Using L-p-Norm Regularization

Michaël Unser, Pakshal Narendra Bohra

We focus on the generalized-interpolation problem. There, one reconstructs continuous-domain signals that honor discrete data constraints. This problem is infinite-dimensional and ill-posed. We make it well-posed by imposing that the solution balances data ...

2020

Generating Sparse Stochastic Processes Using Matched Splines

Michaël Unser, Shayan Aziznejad, Leello Tadesse Dadi

We provide an algorithm to generate trajectories of sparse stochastic processes that are solutions of linear ordinary differential equations driven by Levy white noises. A recent paper showed that these processes are limits in law of generalized compound-P ...

2020

Isogeometric analysis with C1 hierarchical functions on planar two-patch geometries

Rafael Vazquez Hernandez

Adaptive isogeometric methods for the solution of partial diifferential equations rely on the construction of locally refinable spline spaces. A simple and efficient way to obtain these spaces is to apply the multi-level construction of hierarchical spline ...

2020

Support and approximation properties of Hermite splines

Michaël Unser, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Shayan Aziznejad

In this paper, we formally investigate two mathematical aspects of Hermite splines that are relevant to practical applications. We first demonstrate that Hermite splines are maximally localized, in the sense that the size of their support is minimal among ...

2020

Computation of "Best" Interpolants in the Lp Sense

Michaël Unser, Pakshal Narendra Bohra

We study a variant of the interpolation problem where the continuously defined solution is regularized by minimizing the L p -norm of its second-order derivative. For this continuous-domain problem, we propose an exact discretization scheme that restricts ...

2020

Dictionary Learning for Two-Dimensional Kendall Shapes

Michaël Unser, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Anna You-Lai Song

We propose a novel sparse dictionary learning method for planar shapes in the sense of Kendall, namely configurations of landmarks in the plane considered up to similitudes. Our shape dictionary method provides a good trade-off between algorithmic simplici ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020

Domain-Informed Spline Interpolation

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Zafer Dogan, Hamid Behjat

Standard interpolation techniques are implicitly based on the assumption that the signal lies on a single homogeneous domain. In contrast, many naturally occurring signals lie on an inhomogeneous domain, such as brain activity associated to different brain ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Volumetric untrimming: Precise decomposition of trimmed trivariates into tensor products

Pablo Antolin Sanchez

3D objects, modeled using Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) tools, are traditionally represented using a boundary representation (B-rep), and typically use spline functions to parameterize these boundary surfaces. However, recent development in physic ...

2019

A finite element framework based on bivariate simplex splines on triangle configurations

Juan Cao, Xiaodong Wei

Recently, triangle configuration based bivariate simplex splines (referred to as TCB-spline) have been introduced to the geometric computing community. TCB-splines retain many attractive theoretic properties of classical B-splines, such as partition of uni ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Approximation of Non-decaying Signals from Shift-Invariant Subspaces

Michaël Unser, Quy Ha Nguyen

In our recent work, the sampling and reconstruction of non-decaying signals, modeled as members of weighted-L-p spaces, were shown to be stable with an appropriate choice of the generating kernel for the shift-invariant reconstruction space. In this paper, ...

2019

A cost-effective isogeometric approach for composite plates based on a stress recovery procedure

Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Alessandro Reali

This paper introduces a cost-effective strategy to simulate the behavior of laminated plates by means of isogeometric 3D solid elements. Exploiting the high continuity of spline functions and their properties, a proper out-of-plane stress state is recovere ...

2018

Refinement Algorithms for Adaptive Isogeometric Methods with Hierarchical Splines

Rafael Vazquez Hernandez

The construction of suitable mesh configurations for spline models that provide local refinement capabilities is one of the fundamental components for the analysis and development of adaptive isogeometric methods. We investigate the design and implementati ...

2018

Landmark Active Contours for Bioimage Analysis : A Tale of Points and Curves

Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

The problem of identifying the outline of objects in images can be approached from two starting points, either by considering localized features (landmarks, keypoints or regions), or by searching for global contours. Features are regions or points of int ...

EPFL2017