Publications associées à B-spline

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

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

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

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

Landmark-Based Shape Encoding and Sparse-Dictionary Learning in the Continuous Domain

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

We provide a generic framework to learn shape dictionaries of landmark-based curves that are defined in the continuous domain. We first present an unbiased alignment method that involves the construction of a mean shape as well as training sets whose eleme ...

2018

Compactly-Supported Smooth Interpolators for Shape Modeling with Varying Resolution

Michaël Unser, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Pablo Garcia-Amorena Garcia, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

In applications that involve interactive curve and surface modeling, the intuitive manipulation of shapes is crucial. For instance, user interaction is facilitated if a geometrical object can be manipulated through control points that interpolate the shape ...

2017

Isogeometric approximation of cardiac electrophysiology models on surfaces: An accuracy study with application to the human left atrium

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Toni Mikael Lassila, Alessandro Samuele Patelli, Andrea Bartezzaghi

We consider Isogeometric Analysis in the framework of the Galerkin method for the spatial approximation of cardiac electrophysiology models defined on NURBS surfaces; specifically, we perform a numerical comparison between basis functions of degree p >= 1 ...

Elsevier2017

A Family of Smooth and Interpolatory Basis Functions for Parametric Curve and Surface Representation

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

Interpolatory basis functions are helpful to specify parametric curves or surfaces that can be modified by simple user-interaction. Their main advantage is a characterization of the object by a set of control points that lie on the shape itself (i.e., curv ...

2016

An automated baseline correction protocol for infrared spectra of atmospheric aerosols collected on polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) filters

Satoshi Takahama, Adela Kuzmiaková

A growing body of research on statistical applications for characterization of atmospheric aerosol Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) samples collected on polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) filters (e.g., Russell et al., 2011; Ruthenburg et al., 2014) and a ri ...

European Geosciences Union2016

A parametric augmented Lagrangian algorithm for real-time economic NMPC

Colin Neil Jones, Jean-Hubert Hours, Harsh Ambarishkumar Shukla

In this paper, a novel optimality-tracking algorithm for solving Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (ENMPC) problems in real-time is presented. Developing online schemes for ENMPC is challenging, since it is unclear how convexity of the Quadratic ...

IEEE2016

Similarity-Based Shape Priors for 2D Spline Snakes

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

We present a new formulation of a shape space containing all continuously defined 2D spline curves up to a similarity transform of a reference shape. We are able to measure a distance between an arbitrary curve and the shape space itself. Our contribution ...

IEEE2015

Isogeometric numerical dispersion analysis for two-dimensional elastic wave propagation

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Christoph Jäggli

In this paper, we carry out a numerical dispersion analysis for the linear two-dimensional elastodynamics equations approximated by means of NURBS-based Isogeometric Analysis in the framework of the Galerkin method; specifically, we consider the analysis o ...

Elsevier2015

Iterative FBP For Improved Reconstruction Of X-Ray Differential Phase-Contrast Tomograms

Michaël Unser, Cédric René Jean Vonesch, Masih Nilchian, Peter Modregger, Marco Stampanoni

X-ray differential phase-contrast tomography is a recently-developed modality for the imaging of low-contrast biological samples. Its mathematical model is based on the first derivative of the Radon transform and the images, in practice, are reconstructed ...

IEEE2013

An Algorithm to Improve Parameterizations of Rational Bézier Surfaces Using Rational Bilinear Reparameterization

Bailin Deng, Wei Zeng

The parameterization of rational Bézier surfaces greatly affects rendering and tessellation results. The uniformity and orthogonality of iso-parametric curves are two key properties of the optimal parameterization. The only rational Bézier surfaces with un ...

2013

Exponential splines and minimal-support bases for curve representation

Michaël Unser, Philippe Thévenaz, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

Our interest is to characterize the spline-like integer-shift-invariant bases capable of reproducing exponential polynomial curves. We prove that any compact-support function that reproduces a subspace of the exponential polynomials can be expressed as the ...

Elsevier2012

Realistic Analytical Phantoms for Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Michaël Unser, Matthieu Guerquin-Kern

The quantitative validation of reconstruction algorithms requires reliable data. Rasterized simulations are popular but they are tainted by an aliasing component that impacts the assessment of the performance of reconstruction. We introduce analytical simu ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

G1 continuous approximate curves on NURBS surfaces

Bailin Deng, Wei Zeng

Curves on surfaces play an important role in computer aided geometric design. In this paper, we present a parabola approximation method based on the cubic reparameterization of rational Bezier surfaces, which generates G1 continuous approximate curves lyin ...

2012

Practical Box Splines for Reconstruction on the Body Centered Cubic Lattice

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

We introduce a family of box splines for efficient, accurate, and smooth reconstruction of volumetric data sampled on the body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice, which is the favorable volumetric sampling pattern due to its optimal spectral sphere packing prope ...

IEEE2008

Parametric B-Spline Snakes on Distance Maps—Application to Segmentation of Histology Images

Michaël Unser, Philippe Thévenaz, François Aguet, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We construct parametric active contours (snakes) for outlining cells in histology images. These snakes are defined in terms of cubic B-spline basis functions. We use a steerable ridge detector for obtaining a reliable map of the cell boundaries. Using the ...

EURASIP2008

Complex B-Splines

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu

We propose a complex generalization of Schoenberg's cardinal splines. To this end, we go back to the Fourier domain definition of the B-splines and extend it to complex-valued degrees. We show that the resulting complex B-splines are piecewise modulated po ...

Elsevier2006