986 results on '"Laplacian smoothing"'
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2. Unstructured surface mesh smoothing method based on deep reinforcement learning.
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Wang, Nianhua, Zhang, Laiping, and Deng, Xiaogang
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DEEP reinforcement learning , *REINFORCEMENT learning , *MESH networks , *COMPUTATIONAL fluid dynamics , *FINITE element method , *HEURISTIC - Abstract
In numerical simulations such as computational fluid dynamics simulations or finite element analyses, mesh quality affects simulation accuracy directly and significantly. Smoothing is one of the most widely adopted methods to improve unstructured mesh quality in mesh generation practices. Compared with the optimization-based smoothing method, heuristic smoothing methods are efficient but yield lower mesh quality. The balance between smoothing efficiency and mesh quality has been pursued in previous studies. In this paper, we propose a new smoothing method that combines the advantages of the heuristic Laplacian method and the optimization-based method based on the deep reinforcement learning method under the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient framework. Within the framework, the actor artificial neural network predicts the optimal position of each interior free node with its surrounding ring nodes. At the same time, a critic-network is established and takes the mesh quality as input and outputs the reward of the action taken by the actor-network. Training of the networks will maximize the cumulative long-term reward, which ends up maximizing the mesh quality. Training and validation of the proposed method are presented both on 2-dimensional triangular meshes and 3-dimensional surface meshes, which demonstrates the efficiency and mesh quality of the proposed method. Finally, numerical simulations on perturbed meshes and smoothed meshes are carried out and compared which prove the influence of mesh quality on the simulation accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. A new strain-based pentagonal membrane finite element for solid mechanics problems
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Wei Hao Koh, Logah Perumal, and Chee Kuang Kok
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Strain-based pentagonal element ,Corrective coefficients ,Equilibrium ,Laplacian smoothing ,Pentagonal mesh ,Mesh transition ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 - Abstract
Polygonal finite elements remain an attractive option in finite element analysis due to their flexibility in modeling arbitrary shapes compared to triangles. In this study, a pentagonal membrane element was developed with the strain approach for the first time. The element possesses invariance, and the equilibrium constraint was applied to the assumed strain field using corrective coefficients. Inspired by the advancing front technique, a pentagonal mesh was generated, and the mesh quality was enhanced with Laplacian smoothing. The performance of the developed pentagonal element was assessed in a few numerical tests, and the results revealed its suitability in modeling the bending of beams. Besides, the numerical results are enhanced when pentagonal elements are used in mesh transitions along boundaries to smoothen curved edges and capture distributed loads.
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- 2024
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4. A deterministic gradient-based approach to avoid saddle points.
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Kreusser, L. M., Osher, S. J., and Wang, B.
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Loss functions with a large number of saddle points are one of the major obstacles for training modern machine learning (ML) models efficiently. First-order methods such as gradient descent (GD) are usually the methods of choice for training ML models. However, these methods converge to saddle points for certain choices of initial guesses. In this paper, we propose a modification of the recently proposed Laplacian smoothing gradient descent (LSGD) [Osher et al., arXiv:1806.06317 ], called modified LSGD (mLSGD), and demonstrate its potential to avoid saddle points without sacrificing the convergence rate. Our analysis is based on the attraction region, formed by all starting points for which the considered numerical scheme converges to a saddle point. We investigate the attraction region's dimension both analytically and numerically. For a canonical class of quadratic functions, we show that the dimension of the attraction region for mLSGD is $\lfloor (n-1)/2\rfloor$ , and hence it is significantly smaller than that of GD whose dimension is $n-1$. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Attribute Graph Clustering Based on Self-Supervised Spectral Embedding Network
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Xiaolin Ning, Xueyi Zhao, Yanyun Fu, and Guoyang Tang
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Attribute graph clustering ,self-supervised learning ,spectral embedding network ,laplacian smoothing ,Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,TK1-9971 - Abstract
Attribute graph clustering requires joint modeling of both graph structure and node properties, which is challenging. In recent years, graph neural networks have been utilized to mine deep information on attribute graphs through feature aggregation, learning node embeddings, and using traditional methods to obtain clustering results, exhibiting excellent clustering performance. However, these approaches often face the following issues: the original graph structure and node features contain noise, and the quality dramatically affects the clustering results; the two-step framework of first learning node embeddings and then clustering is often suboptimal as it is not target-oriented and prone to producing suboptimal results. Through research, we propose an attribute graph clustering method called FK-SENet based on a self-supervised spectral embedding network. It utilizes Laplacian smoothing filters to smooth and denoise node features. It optimizes the initial graph structure by leveraging shared neighbor information to improve the quality of the original data, thereby enhancing clustering performance. Soft labels are generated from the node embeddings themselves to achieve self-supervision, and they jointly guide the clustering process with spectral clustering loss, iteratively optimizing the clustering results. The effectiveness of this model has been demonstrated through extensive experiments and comparisons with baseline methods.
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- 2023
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6. Local linear approximation with Laplacian smoothing penalty and application in biology.
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Chen, Xingyu and Yang, Yuehan
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BIOLOGY , *GENE expression , *PROBLEM solving , *BIOCHEMISTRY - Abstract
Highly correlated structures appear in various fields, such as biology, biochemistry, and finance, with challenges of dimensionality and sparse estimation. To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm called local linear approximation with the Laplacian smoothing penalty (LLA-LSP). This method produces an accurate and smooth estimate that incorporates the correlation structure among predictors. We compare and discuss the difference between the Laplacian smoothing penalty and the total variance penalty. We prove that this algorithm converges to the oracle solution in a few iterations with a large probability. Numerical results show that the LLA-LSP has good performance in both variable selection and estimation. We apply the proposed algorithm to two biological datasets, a gene expression dataset and a chemical protein dataset, and provide meaningful insights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. Differentially private federated learning with Laplacian smoothing.
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Liang, Zhicong, Wang, Bao, Gu, Quanquan, Osher, Stanley, and Yao, Yuan
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FEDERATED learning , *DATA privacy , *STATISTICAL accuracy , *STATISTICAL learning , *STATISTICAL smoothing , *PRICES , *PRIVACY , *RANDOM noise theory - Abstract
Federated learning aims to protect data privacy by collaboratively learning a model without sharing private data among users. However, an adversary may still be able to infer the private training data by attacking the released model. Differential privacy provides a statistical protection against such attacks at the price of significantly degrading the accuracy or utility of the trained models. In this paper, we investigate a utility enhancement scheme based on Laplacian smoothing for differentially private federated learning (DP-Fed-LS), to improve the statistical precision of parameter aggregation with injected Gaussian noise without losing privacy budget. Our key observation is that the aggregated gradients in federated learning often enjoy a type of smoothness, i.e. sparsity in a graph Fourier basis with polynomial decays of Fourier coefficients as frequency grows, which can be exploited by the Laplacian smoothing efficiently. Under a prescribed differential privacy budget, convergence error bounds with tight rates are provided for DP-Fed-LS with uniform subsampling of heterogeneous non-iid data, revealing possible utility improvement of Laplacian smoothing in effective dimensionality and variance reduction, among others. Experiments over MNIST, SVHN, and Shakespeare datasets show that the proposed method can improve model accuracy with DP-guarantee and membership privacy under both uniform and Poisson subsampling mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. Laplacian smoothing gradient descent.
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Osher, Stanley, Wang, Bao, Yin, Penghang, Luo, Xiyang, Barekat, Farzin, Pham, Minh, and Lin, Alex
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MACHINE learning ,LEARNING problems ,MATHEMATICAL optimization ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,GENERALIZATION - Abstract
We propose a class of very simple modifications of gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent leveraging Laplacian smoothing. We show that when applied to a large variety of machine learning problems, ranging from logistic regression to deep neural nets, the proposed surrogates can dramatically reduce the variance, allow to take a larger step size, and improve the generalization accuracy. The methods only involve multiplying the usual (stochastic) gradient by the inverse of a positive definitive matrix (which can be computed efficiently by FFT) with a low condition number coming from a one-dimensional discrete Laplacian or its high-order generalizations. Given any vector, e.g., gradient vector, Laplacian smoothing preserves the mean and increases the smallest component and decreases the largest component. Moreover, we show that optimization algorithms with these surrogates converge uniformly in the discrete Sobolev H σ p sense and reduce the optimality gap for convex optimization problems. The code is available at: https://github.com/BaoWangMath/LaplacianSmoothing-GradientDescent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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9. Laplacian Smoothing Stochastic ADMMs With Differential Privacy Guarantees.
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Liu, Yuanyuan, Geng, Jiacheng, Shang, Fanhua, An, Weixin, Liu, Hongying, Zhu, Qi, and Feng, Wei
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Many machine learning tasks such as structured sparse coding and multi-task learning can be converted into an equality constrained optimization problem. The stochastic alternating direction method of multipliers (SADMM) is a popular algorithm to solve such large-scale problems, and has been successfully used in many real-world applications. However, existing SADMMs fail to take into consideration an important issue in their designs, i.e., protecting sensitive information. To address this challenging issue, this paper proposes a novel differential privacy stochastic ADMM framework for solving equality constrained machine learning problems. In particular, to further lift the utility in privacy-preserving equality constrained optimization, a Laplacian smoothing operation is also introduced into our differential privacy ADMM framework, and it can smooth out the Gaussian noise used in the Gaussian mechanism. Then we propose an efficient differentially private variance reduced stochastic ADMM (DP-VRADMM) algorithm with Laplacian smoothing for both strongly convex and general convex objectives. As a by-product, we also present a new differentially private stochastic ADMM algorithm with DP guarantees. In theory, we provide both private guarantees and utility guarantees for the proposed algorithms, which show that Laplacian smoothing can improve the utility bounds of our algorithms. Experimental results on real-world datasets verify our theoretical results and the effectiveness of our algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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10. An Angle-Based Smoothing Method for Triangular and Tetrahedral Meshes
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Guo, Yufei, Wang, Lei, Zhao, Kang, Hai, Yongqing, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Wang, Yongtian, editor, Li, Xueming, editor, and Peng, Yuxin, editor
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- 2020
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11. An Improved Compression Method for 3D Photogrammetry Scanned High Polygon Models for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and 3D Printing Demanded Applications
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Hassan, Mohamed Samir, Shamardan, Hossam-Eldeen M., Sadek, Rowayda A., Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series Editor, Gomide, Fernando, Advisory Editor, Kaynak, Okyay, Advisory Editor, Liu, Derong, Advisory Editor, Pedrycz, Witold, Advisory Editor, Polycarpou, Marios M., Advisory Editor, Rudas, Imre J., Advisory Editor, Wang, Jun, Advisory Editor, Ghalwash, Atef Zaki, editor, El Khameesy, Nashaat, editor, Magdi, Dalia A., editor, and Joshi, Amit, editor
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- 2020
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12. Experimental validation of smoothed machine learning-based parameterization of local support in robot-based incremental sheet forming
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Möllensiep, Dennis, Ohm, Marvin, Störkle, Denis Daniel, Kuhlenkötter, Bernd, Wulfsberg, Jens Peter, editor, Hintze, Wolfgang, editor, and Behrens, Bernd-Arno, editor
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- 2019
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13. Bridging Between Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing via Laplacian Smoothing.
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Barroqueiro, B., Andrade-Campos, A., Dias-de-Oliveira, J., and Valente, R. A. F.
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TOPOLOGY , *COMPUTATIONAL geometry , *KEY performance indicators (Management) , *GEOMETRY - Abstract
The potential of additive layer manufacturing (ALM) is high, with a whole new set of manufacturable parts with unseen complexity being offered. Moreover, the combination of topology optimization (TO) with ALM has brought mutual advantages. However, the transition between TO and ALM is a nontrivial step that requires a robust methodology. Thus, the purpose of this work is to evaluate the capabilities of adopting the commonly used Laplacian smoothing methodology as the bridging tool between TO and ALM. Several algorithms are presented and compared in terms of efficiency and performance. Most importantly, a different concept of Laplacian smoothing is presented as well as a set of metrics to evaluate the performance of the algorithms, with the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm being discussed. In the end, the proposed mutable diffusion Laplacian algorithm is presented and exhibits less volume shrinkage and shows better preservation of some geometrical features such as thin members and edges. Moreover, a new volume constraint is presented, decreasing the resulting structural changes in the presented geometry and improving the final mesh quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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14. 3D Steganalysis Using Laplacian Smoothing at Various Levels
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Li, Zhenyu, Liu, Fenlin, Bors, Adrian G., Hutchison, David, Series Editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series Editor, Kittler, Josef, Series Editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series Editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series Editor, Mitchell, John C., Series Editor, Naor, Moni, Series Editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series Editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series Editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series Editor, Tygar, Doug, Series Editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series Editor, Sun, Xingming, editor, Pan, Zhaoqing, editor, and Bertino, Elisa, editor
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- 2018
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15. Order-Randomized Laplacian Mesh Smoothing
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Yang, Ying, Rushmeier, Holly, Ivrissimtzis, Ioannis, Hutchison, David, Series editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series editor, Kittler, Josef, Series editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series editor, Mitchell, John C., Series editor, Naor, Moni, Series editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series editor, Tygar, Doug, Series editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series editor, Floater, Michael, editor, Lyche, Tom, editor, Mazure, Marie-Laurence, editor, Mørken, Knut, editor, and Schumaker, Larry L., editor
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- 2017
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16. LAPLACIAN SMOOTHING STOCHASTIC GRADIENT MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO.
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BAO WANG, DIFAN ZOU, QUANQUAN GU, and OSHER, STANLEY J.
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CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks , *MARKOV chain Monte Carlo , *MACHINE learning , *SMOOTHING (Numerical analysis) - Abstract
As an important Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method, the stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) algorithm has achieved great success in Bayesian learning and posterior sampling. However, SGLD typically suffers from a slow convergence rate due to its large variance caused by the stochastic gradient. In order to alleviate these drawbacks, we leverage the recently developed Laplacian smoothing technique and propose a Laplacian smoothing stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (LS-SGLD) algorithm. We prove that for sampling from both log-concave and non-log-concave densities, LS-SGLD achieves strictly smaller discretization error in 2-Wasserstein distance, although its mixing rate can be slightly slower. Experiments on both synthetic and real datasets verify our theoretical results and demonstrate the superior performance of LS-SGLD on different machine learning tasks including posterior sampling, Bayesian logistic regression, and training Bayesian convolutional neural networks. The code is available at https://github.com/BaoWangMath/LS-MCMC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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17. Suspension Footbridge Form-Finding with Laplacian Smoothing Algorithm.
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Huang, Zhuo-ju, Ding, Jie-min, and Xiang, Sheng-yi
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In this paper, Laplacian smoothing, which is an algorithm originally used to smooth polygon meshes in computer graphics (CG), is applied to solve a structural form-finding problem with the proof that the result of such algorithm is equivalent to force density method. Such CG algorithm is used on the design of a new-built suspension footbridge in Shaoxing, China and the algorithm works well. Since Laplacian smoothing is a pure geometric algorithm without any mechanical concept, the algorithm shows the inner relationship between force and shape, more structural applicable CG algorithms are expected to be found in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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18. 2D Mesh smoothing based on Markov chain method.
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Yang, Fan, Zhang, Dujiang, Ren, Hu, and Xu, JinXiu
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MARKOV processes ,MONTE Carlo method ,ALGORITHMS - Abstract
The mesh quality is of vital importance to obtain the numerical results precisely. Poorly shaped or distorted elements can be produced by automatic mesh generation tools. In this article, the mesh smoothing algorithm based on the Markov chain Monte Carlo method is proposed to improve the quality of the mesh. The movement of nodes position is converted to a stochastic process to seek the best position for the element quality. Compared with the widely known Laplacian smoothing and optimization-based smoothing techniques, the mesh quality by the proposed method is found better than these methods. Examples are performed to illustrate the applicability of the approach. The numerical results show that the proposed algorithm is effective and valuable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. Effective Deep Attributed Network Representation Learning With Topology Adapted Smoothing
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Dianhui Wang, Tieyun Qian, Jia Chen, Ming Zhong, Jianxin Li, and Hang Tu
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,0209 industrial biotechnology ,Computer science ,Node (networking) ,02 engineering and technology ,Topology ,Autoencoder ,Computer Science Applications ,Human-Computer Interaction ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Control and Systems Engineering ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Benchmark (computing) ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Laplacian smoothing ,Focus (optics) ,Representation (mathematics) ,Software ,Smoothing ,Information Systems - Abstract
Attributed networks are ubiquitous in the real world, such as social networks. Therefore, many researchers take the node attributes into consideration in the network representation learning to improve the downstream task performance. In this article, we mainly focus on an untouched ``oversmoothing'' problem in the research of the attributed network representation learning. Although the Laplacian smoothing has been applied by the state-of-the-art works to learn a more robust node representation, these works cannot adapt to the topological characteristics of different networks, thereby causing the new oversmoothing problem and reducing the performance on some networks. In contrast, we adopt a smoothing parameter that is evaluated from the topological characteristics of a specified network, such as small worldness or node convergency and, thus, can smooth the nodes' attribute and structure information adaptively and derive both robust and distinguishable node features for different networks. Moreover, we develop an integrated autoencoder to learn the node representation by reconstructing the combination of the smoothed structure and attribute information. By observation of extensive experiments, our approach can preserve the intrinsical information of networks more effectively than the state-of-the-art works on a number of benchmark datasets with very different topological characteristics.
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- 2022
20. A Novel Approach to the Weighted Laplacian Formulation Applied to 2D Delaunay Triangulations
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de Oliveira, Sanderson L. Gonzaga, de Oliveira, Frederico Santos, Chagas, Guilherme Oliveira, Hutchison, David, Series editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series editor, Kittler, Josef, Series editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series editor, Mitchell, John C., Series editor, Naor, Moni, Series editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series editor, Tygar, Doug, Series editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series editor, Gervasi, Osvaldo, editor, Murgante, Beniamino, editor, Misra, Sanjay, editor, Gavrilova, Marina L., editor, Rocha, Ana Maria Alves Coutinho, editor, Torre, Carmelo, editor, Taniar, David, editor, and Apduhan, Bernady O., editor
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- 2015
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21. Refining Mitochondria Segmentation in Electron Microscopy Imagery with Active Surfaces
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Jorstad, Anne, Fua, Pascal, Hutchison, David, Series editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series editor, Kittler, Josef, Series editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series editor, Mitchell, John C., Series editor, Naor, Moni, Series editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series editor, Tygar, Doug, Series editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series editor, Agapito, Lourdes, editor, Bronstein, Michael M., editor, and Rother, Carsten, editor
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- 2015
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22. Discussions and Conclusions
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Cai, Jianping, Lin, Feng, Seah, Hock Soon, Cai, Jianping, Lin, Feng, and Seah, Hock Soon
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- 2016
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23. A Skeleton-Based Hierarchical Method for Detecting 3-D Pole-Like Objects From Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds.
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Yang, Juntao, Kang, Zhizhong, and Akwensi, Perpetual Hope
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The pole-like object detection is of significance for robot navigation, autonomous driving, road infrastructure inventory, and detailed 3-D map generation. In this letter, we develop a skeleton-based hierarchical method for automatic detection of pole-like objects from mobile LiDAR point clouds. First, coarse extraction of building facades is adopted for the occlusion analysis. Second, slice-based Euclidean clustering algorithm is implemented to derive a set of pole-like object candidates. Third, skeleton-based principal component analysis shape recognition is presented to robustly locate all possible positions of pole-like objects. Finally, a Voronoi-constrained vertical region growing algorithm is proposed to adaptively producing the individual pole-like objects. Experiments were conducted on the public Paris–Lille-3-D data set. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is robust and efficient for extracting the pole-like objects, with average quality of 90.43%. Furthermore, the proposed method outperforms other existing methods, especially for detecting pole-like objects with a large radius. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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24. Voxel-Based Extraction of Transmission Lines From Airborne LiDAR Point Cloud Data.
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Yang, Juntao and Kang, Zhizhong
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The safety of the electricity infrastructure significantly affects both our daily life and industrial activities. Timely and accurate monitoring of the safety of electricity network can prevent dangerous situations effectively. Thus, we, in this paper, develop a voxel-based method for automatically extracting the transmission lines from airborne LiDAR point cloud data. The method proposed in this paper uses three-dimensional (3-D) voxels as primitives and consist of the following steps: First, skeleton structure extraction using Laplacian smoothing; second, feature construction of a 3-D voxel using Latent Dirichlet allocation topic model; and third Markov random field model-based extraction for generating locally continuous and globally optimal results. To evaluate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method, experiments were conducted on four different types of power line scenes with flat and complex terrains from helicopter-borne LiDAR point cloud data. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method is efficient and robust for automatically detecting both the single conductor and the bundled conductors, with precision, recall, and quality of over 96.78%, 98.67%, and 96.66%, respectively. Moreover, compared with other existing methods, our proposed method provides higher detection correctness rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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25. A Fast Geometric Deformation Method to Adapt a Foot to a Platform
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Buades, J. M., González-Hidalgo, M., Perales, Francisco J., Ramis-Guarinos, S., Oliver, A., Montiel, E., González Hidalgo, Manuel, editor, Mir Torres, Arnau, editor, and Varona Gómez, Javier, editor
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- 2013
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26. T-Base: A Triangle-Based Iterative Algorithm for Smoothing Quadrilateral Meshes
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Mei, Gang, Tipper, John C., Xu, Nengxiong, Lu, Wei, editor, Cai, Guoqiang, editor, Liu, Weibin, editor, and Xing, Weiwei, editor
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- 2013
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27. An Implicit and Parallel Chimera Type Domain Decomposition Method
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Eguzkitza, B., Houzeaux, G., Aubry, R., Peredo, O., Bank, Randolph, editor, Holst, Michael, editor, Widlund, Olof, editor, and Xu, Jinchao, editor
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- 2013
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28. Spatially Correlated Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Image Analysis
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Chen, Xinlei, Li, Cheng, Cai, Deng, Hutchison, David, editor, Kanade, Takeo, editor, Kittler, Josef, editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., editor, Mattern, Friedemann, editor, Mitchell, John C., editor, Naor, Moni, editor, Nierstrasz, Oscar, editor, Pandu Rangan, C., editor, Steffen, Bernhard, editor, Sudan, Madhu, editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, editor, Tygar, Doug, editor, Vardi, Moshe Y., editor, Weikum, Gerhard, editor, Yang, Jian, editor, Fang, Fang, editor, and Sun, Changyin, editor
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- 2013
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29. Modeling Respiratory Motion for Cancer Radiation Therapy Based on Patient-Specific 4DCT Data
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Eom, Jaesung, Shi, Chengyu, Xu, Xie George, De, Suvranu, Hutchison, David, editor, Kanade, Takeo, editor, Kittler, Josef, editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., editor, Mattern, Friedemann, editor, Mitchell, John C., editor, Naor, Moni, editor, Nierstrasz, Oscar, editor, Pandu Rangan, C., editor, Steffen, Bernhard, editor, Sudan, Madhu, editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, editor, Tygar, Doug, editor, Vardi, Moshe Y., editor, Weikum, Gerhard, editor, Yang, Guang-Zhong, editor, Hawkes, David, editor, Rueckert, Daniel, editor, Noble, Alison, editor, and Taylor, Chris, editor
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- 2009
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30. An Optimisation-Based Approach to Mesh Smoothing: Reformulation and Extensions
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Hamam, Yskandar, Couprie, Michel, Hutchison, David, Series editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series editor, Kittler, Josef, Series editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series editor, Mitchell, John C., Series editor, Naor, Moni, Series editor, Nierstrasz, Oscar, Series editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series editor, Sudan, Madhu, Series editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series editor, Tygar, Doug, Series editor, Vardi, Moshe Y., Series editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series editor, Torsello, Andrea, editor, Escolano, Francisco, editor, and Brun, Luc, editor
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- 2009
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31. ROOT PHENOTYPING FROM X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY: SKELETON EXTRACTION
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Yang Yang, Valerian Meline, A. M. Souza, Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Mónica Herrero-Huerta, and Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi
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Root (linguistics) ,Technology ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Pattern recognition ,3D modeling ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,Bottleneck ,TA1501-1820 ,Visual inspection ,Scalability ,Applied optics. Photonics ,Artificial intelligence ,Tomography ,Laplacian smoothing ,TA1-2040 ,business ,Throughput (business) - Abstract
Breakthrough imaging technologies are a potential solution to the plant phenotyping bottleneck in marker-assisted breeding and genetic mapping. X-Ray CT (computed tomography) technology is able to acquire the digital twin of root system architecture (RSA), however, advances in computational methods to digitally model spatial disposition of root system networks are urgently required.We extracted the root skeleton of the digital twin based on 3D data from X-ray CT, which is optimized for high-throughput and robust results. Significant root architectural traits such as number, length, growth angle, elongation rate and branching map can be easily extracted from the skeleton. The curve-skeleton extraction is computed based on a constrained Laplacian smoothing algorithm. This skeletal structure drives the registration procedure in temporal series. The experiment was carried out at the Ag Alumni Seed Phenotyping Facility (AAPF) at Purdue University in West Lafayette (IN, USA). Three samples of tomato root at 2 different times and three samples of corn root at 3 different times were scanned. The skeleton is able to accurately match the shape of the RSA based on a visual inspection.The results based on a visual inspection confirm the feasibility of the proposed methodology, providing scalability to a comprehensive analysis to high throughput root phenotyping.
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- 2021
32. A Sketch-Based Interface for Modeling Myocardial Fiber Orientation
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Takayama, Kenshi, Igarashi, Takeo, Haraguchi, Ryo, Nakazawa, Kazuo, Hutchison, David, editor, Kanade, Takeo, editor, Kittler, Josef, editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., editor, Mattern, Friedemann, editor, Mitchell, John C., editor, Naor, Moni, editor, Nierstrasz, Oscar, editor, Pandu Rangan, C., editor, Steffen, Bernhard, editor, Sudan, Madhu, editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, editor, Tygar, Doug, editor, Vardi, Moshe Y., editor, Weikum, Gerhard, editor, Butz, Andreas, editor, Fisher, Brian, editor, Krüger, Antonio, editor, Olivier, Patrick, editor, and Owada, Shigeru, editor
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- 2007
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33. An Improved Laplacian Smoothing Approach for Surface Meshes
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Chen, Ligang, Zheng, Yao, Chen, Jianjun, Liang, Yi, Hutchison, David, editor, Kanade, Takeo, editor, Kittler, Josef, editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., editor, Mattern, Friedemann, editor, Mitchell, John C., editor, Naor, Moni, editor, Nierstrasz, Oscar, editor, Rangan, C. Pandu, editor, Steffen, Bernhard, editor, Sudan, Madhu, editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, editor, Tygar, Doug, editor, Vardi, Moshe Y., editor, Weikum, Gerhard, editor, Shi, Yong, editor, van Albada, Geert Dick, editor, Dongarra, Jack, editor, and Sloot, Peter M. A., editor
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- 2007
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34. New Results in Signal Processing and Compression of Polygon Meshes
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Taubin, Gabriel, Farin, Gerald, editor, Hege, Hans-Christian, editor, Hoffman, David, editor, Johnson, Christopher R., editor, Polthier, Konrad, editor, Brunnett, Guido, editor, Hamann, Bernd, editor, Müller, Heinrich, editor, and Linsen, Lars, editor
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- 2004
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35. Triangle Mesh Duality: Reconstruction and Smoothing
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Patanè, Giuseppe, Spagnuolo, Michela, Goos, Gerhard, editor, Hartmanis, Juris, editor, van Leeuwen, Jan, editor, Wilson, Michael J., editor, and Martin, Ralph R., editor
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- 2003
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36. Sistem Informasi Evaluasi Perkuliahan dengan Sentimen Analisis Menggunakan Naïve Bayes dan Smoothing Laplace
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Novan Fajarianto and Nilam Ramadhani
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Computer science ,business.industry ,Sentiment analysis ,Data transformation (statistics) ,Subject (documents) ,computer.software_genre ,Naive Bayes classifier ,Text processing ,Information system ,Artificial intelligence ,Laplacian smoothing ,business ,computer ,Natural language processing ,Smoothing - Abstract
A good lecture is certainly a goal so that students achieve maximum learning outcomes. In order for good lecture quality, lecture evaluation needs to be done,beside lecturer professional competency training. In order to improve the quality of lectures, Departement Informatics of Madura University (UNIRA) evaluates lecturers' performance in each semester. Form of evaluation is a questionnaire that filled out by students.Results of the questionnaire, then it is analyzed to find out whether the comments are positive, negative, or neutral. The method that can be used to solve the problem of sentiment classification analysis is Naïve Bayes that combined with text processing techniques.The data comments that collected are 342. After grouping the comments by subject, there were 31 comments for subject Human and Computer Interaction (HCI). In this data comments then performed data cleaning, data transformation, text processing and labeling. Then classifying comments using Naïve Bayes with Smoothing Laplace. Results of accuration obtained an accuracy to 80%. The results of implementation Naïve Bayes algorithm with Smoothing Laplace, it can be seen the sentiment analysis of the subjects that lectures taught.
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- 2020
37. A new optimal image smoothing method based on generalized discrete iterated Laplacian minimization and its application in the analysis of earth’s surface using satellite remote sensing imagery
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Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Laplace transform ,Computer science ,Finite difference ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Iterated function ,law ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Cartesian coordinate system ,Laplacian smoothing ,Linear combination ,Algorithm ,Laplace operator ,Smoothing ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
In this paper a new method of image smoothing and its applications in the field of remote sensing are presented. This method is based on the minimization of the iterated Laplace operator of an arbitrary degree in the Cartesian coordinate system. Using the method of finite differences, a linear combination is derived, which represents the solution of the minimization problem. For the special case of the ordinary Laplace operator, the solution is explicitly represented in a 9 × 9 template. To show the potential applications in the field of remote sensing, a study is presented for Iran. In this study, Sentinel-2 satellite imagery is used in 13 bands, with different geometric resolutions. Using the derived template, a comprehensive analysis is presented for each band. It is shown that various phenomena can be detected in the image, including location of different soil types. Comparison of the independent methods of Laplace template, L0 gradient smoothing, local Laplacian smoothing, and tree filtering, with the newly proposed method shows that the new method is more efficient in determining the various phenomena that are present in the area of interest in the satellite imagery.
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- 2020
38. Smooth operator: The effects of different 3D mesh retriangulation protocols on the computation of Dirichlet normal energy.
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Spradley, Jackson P., Pampush, James D., Morse, Paul E., and Kay, Richard F.
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DENTAL crowns , *DIRICHLET principle , *SURFACE topography , *BIOLOGICAL interfaces , *MOLARS , *ALGORITHMS - Abstract
Objectives Dirichlet normal energy (DNE) is a metric of surface topography that has been used to evaluate the relationship between the surface complexity of primate cheek teeth and dietary categories. This study examines the effects of different 3D mesh retriangulation protocols on DNE. We examine how different protocols influence the DNE of a simple geometric shape-a hemisphere-to gain a more thorough understanding than can be achieved by investigating a complex biological surface such as a tooth crown. Materials and Methods We calculate DNE on 3D surface meshes of hemispheres and on primate molars subjected to various retriangulation protocols, including smoothing algorithms, smoothing amounts, target face counts, and criteria for boundary face exclusion. Software used includes R, MorphoTester, Avizo, and MeshLab. DNE was calculated using the R package 'molaR.' Results In all cases, smoothing as performed in Avizo sharply decreases DNE initially, after which DNE becomes stable. Using a broader boundary exclusion criterion or performing additional smoothing (using 'mesh fairing' methods) further decreases DNE. Increasing the mesh face count also results in increased DNE on tooth surfaces. Conclusions Different retriangulation protocols yield different DNE values for the same surfaces, and should not be combined in meta-analyses. Increasing face count will capture surface microfeatures, but at the expense of computational speed. More aggressive smoothing is more likely to alter the essential geometry of the surface. A protocol is proposed that limits potential artifacts created during surface production while preserving pertinent features on the occlusal surface. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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39. Adaptive hexahedral mesh generation and regeneration using an improved grid-based method.
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Huang, Lili, Zhao, Guoqun, Wang, Zhonglei, and Zhang, Xiangwei
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NUMERICAL grid generation (Numerical analysis) , *CURVATURE , *MATHEMATICAL variables , *JACOBIAN matrices , *LAPLACIAN matrices - Abstract
An improved grid-based algorithm for the adaptive generation and regeneration of hexahedral element mesh is presented in this paper. The method for the mesh density generation and control is introduced. The refinement field is generated based on the surface curvatures, geometry features, density windows and field variables distribution. To give good description of the geometry features, eight different types of free element facet configurations are given for the mesh matching to the surface of the solid model. Scaled Jacobian and the Condition Number of the Jacobian matrix are used to evaluate the hexahedral element mesh quality. A curvature-based Laplacian smoothing approach is employed to improve the quality of boundary elements and preserve the boundary characters of mesh. To improve the quality of the surface meshes and the interior elements, an optimization approach is proposed by using mesh quality metric as the objective function. By combining the Laplacian smoothing method with the optimization approach, the mesh quality is improved significantly. For the surface meshes, the Condition Number of a set of Jacobian metric associated with the quadrilateral elements is taken as the optimization objective function. For the interior elements, the Condition Number metric associated with the hexahedral elements is employed as the optimization objective function. The effectiveness and robustness of the approaches are demonstrated through two complex three-dimensional models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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40. Volume preserving smoothing of triangular isotropic three-dimensional surface meshes.
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Rypl, D. and Nerad, J.
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STATISTICAL smoothing , *TRIANGULARIZATION (Mathematics) , *ISOTROPIC properties , *DIMENSIONAL analysis , *CURVATURE - Abstract
The present paper deals with the volume preserving smoothing of triangular isotropic meshes over three-dimensional surfaces. The adopted approach is based on Laplacian smoothing combining in an alternating manner positive and negative weights in consecutive cycles of the smoothing. Since the aim is to improve the shape of individual elements of the mesh rather than to get rid of a noise, the weights are derived in a very simple way using a “do not harm” concept. The paper also extends the smoothing methodology from meshes on closed surfaces to meshes on open surfaces and discusses how the concept can be applied to meshes over surfaces with sharp features and curvature discontinuities. The performance and capabilities of the presented smoothing approach are demonstrated on several examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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41. Suspension Footbridge Form-Finding with Laplacian Smoothing Algorithm
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Sheng-yi Xiang, Zhuo-ju Huang, and Jie-min Ding
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Force density ,Computer science ,020101 civil engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Suspension (topology) ,0201 civil engineering ,Computer graphics ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,0203 mechanical engineering ,Solid mechanics ,Polygon ,Polygon mesh ,Laplacian smoothing ,Algorithm ,ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
In this paper, Laplacian smoothing, which is an algorithm originally used to smooth polygon meshes in computer graphics (CG), is applied to solve a structural form-finding problem with the proof that the result of such algorithm is equivalent to force density method. Such CG algorithm is used on the design of a new-built suspension footbridge in Shaoxing, China and the algorithm works well. Since Laplacian smoothing is a pure geometric algorithm without any mechanical concept, the algorithm shows the inner relationship between force and shape, more structural applicable CG algorithms are expected to be found in the future.
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- 2020
42. Going Deep: Graph Convolutional Ladder-Shape Networks
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Ruiqi Hu, Shirui Pan, Qinghua Lu, Liming Zhu, Guodong Long, and Jing Jiang
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Theoretical computer science ,Artificial neural network ,Computer science ,02 engineering and technology ,General Medicine ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Graph ,Graph classification ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,Differentiable function ,Laplacian smoothing ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Neighborhood aggregation algorithms like spectral graph convolutional networks (GCNs) formulate graph convolutions as a symmetric Laplacian smoothing operation to aggregate the feature information of one node with that of its neighbors. While they have achieved great success in semi-supervised node classification on graphs, current approaches suffer from the over-smoothing problem when the depth of the neural networks increases, which always leads to a noticeable degradation of performance. To solve this problem, we present graph convolutional ladder-shape networks (GCLN), a novel graph neural network architecture that transmits messages from shallow layers to deeper layers to overcome the over-smoothing problem and dramatically extend the scale of the neural networks with improved performance. We have validated the effectiveness of proposed GCLN at a node-wise level with a semi-supervised task (node classification) and an unsupervised task (node clustering), and at a graph-wise level with graph classification by applying a differentiable pooling operation. The proposed GCLN outperforms original GCNs, deep GCNs and other state-of-the-art GCN-based models for all three tasks, which were designed from various perspectives on six real-world benchmark data sets.
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- 2020
43. Integrated Methodology for Designing Structures coming from Additive Layer Manufacturing
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B. Barroqueiro, António Andrade-Campos, Robertt A. F. Valente, and Active Space Technologies S.A.
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0209 industrial biotechnology ,Mathematical optimization ,Source code ,Heaviside step function ,Computer science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Topology optimization ,Process (computing) ,02 engineering and technology ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Visualization ,Set (abstract data type) ,[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,symbols.namesake ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,0203 mechanical engineering ,Artificial Intelligence ,symbols ,Laplacian smoothing ,Projection (set theory) ,media_common - Abstract
The potential of Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) is high, with a whole new set of manufacture parts with unseen complexity being offered. However, the process has limitations such as minimum member sizes or overhang constraints, which should be taken into account in the design. Therefore, the combination of Topology Optimization (TO) with ALM can be seen as an advantageous one [1]. Nevertheless, the connection between TO and ALM represents a non-trivial step that requires a robust methodology. In this sense, a proposal towards an integrated robust methodology is shown and demonstrated in the present paper. The TO step is available and accounts for minimum member size (Heaviside projection) and/or overhang constraint (layer-wise simplified fabrication model) [2]. The algorithm uses a regular cubic approach with precomputed stiffness matrices for efficient assembling and solving, where the mentioned transition between TO and ALM is also available via Laplacian smoothing. The source code is available on GitHub in the Trimesh module, as all the other auxiliary tools, namely geometry import and export capabilities, visualization capabilities and interactive boundary conditions selection [3]. Finally, a 3D case-study is shown as a way to illustrate the potential of the prosed integrated process.
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- 2020
44. Modeling three dimensional gas bubble dynamics between two curved rigid plates using boundary integral method
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Imad A. Aziz, Abdolrahman Dadvand, Rostam K. Saeed, and Kawa Manmi
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Physics ,Jet (fluid) ,Applied Mathematics ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Bubble ,General Engineering ,Rotational symmetry ,Boundary (topology) ,02 engineering and technology ,Mechanics ,01 natural sciences ,Physics::Fluid Dynamics ,010101 applied mathematics ,Computational Mathematics ,020303 mechanical engineering & transports ,0203 mechanical engineering ,Distortion ,Turbomachinery ,0101 mathematics ,Laplacian smoothing ,Eccentricity (behavior) ,Analysis ,media_common - Abstract
High speed liquid jet forms when a bubble collapses near a solid boundary. The formation of the jet has both advantages and disadvantages as it causes erosion and damage in the nearby turbomachinery and can be beneficially applied in surface cleaning, fluid pumping, etc. In this paper, three-dimensional bubble oscillation between two curved rigid plates is modeled using boundary integral method (BIM). The bubble is incepted at different locations between the plates to investigate the eccentricity effects on the bubble shape, jet formation, etc. The modified Laplacian smoothing technique is implemented on the bubble surface during the jet development to reduce element distortion. The new model is validated with the Rayleigh–Plesset equation as well as with the available experimental data. It was found that the jet velocity increases, and the number of jets is reduced from two to one as the bubble is horizontally shifted away from the centroid. When the bubble is incepted on the horizontal axisymmetric line the jet is horizontal. However, the jet direction changes as the bubble is incepted closer to one of the plates. Finally, the pressure and velocity fields of the fluid surrounding the bubble are provided for better interpretation of the results.
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- 2019
45. Imaging of X-Rays and Energetic Neutral Atoms with Rotating Modulation Collimators
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Fisher, T. R., DeWitt, Robert N., editor, Duston, Dwight, editor, and Hyder, Anthony K., editor
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46. Symmetries of discrete curves and point clouds via trigonometric interpolation
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Michal Bizzarri, Miroslav Lávička, and Jan Vršek
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Computational Geometry (cs.CG) ,FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computational Mathematics ,Laplacian smoothing ,Discrete curves ,Applied Mathematics ,Trigonometric interpolation ,Trigonometric curves ,Computer Science - Computational Geometry ,Point clouds ,Symmetries - Abstract
We formulate a simple algorithm for computing global exact symmetries of closed discrete curves in the plane. The method is based on a suitable trigonometric interpolation of vertices of the given polyline and consequent computation of the symmetry group of the obtained trigonometric curve. The algorithm exploits the fact that the introduced unique assignment of the trigonometric curve to each closed discrete curve commutes with isometries. For understandable reasons, an essential part of the paper is devoted to determining rotational and axial symmetries of trigonometric curves. We also show that the formulated approach can be easily applied on unorganized clouds of points. A functionality of the designed detection method is presented on several examples.
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- 2022
47. A paving algorithm for dynamic generation of quadrilateral meshes for online numerical simulations of ship manoeuvring in shallow water.
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Zhou, Xueqian, Sutulo, Serge, and Guedes Soares, C.
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PAVING industry , *ALGORITHMS , *COMPUTER simulation , *WATER depth , *NAVAL architecture - Abstract
A modified paving algorithm is presented for dynamical generation of all-quadrangle meshes for simulating hydrodynamic interaction forces acting upon ships manoeuvring in restricted waters. The so-called hybrid smoother, combining advantages of the Laplacian and angle-based techniques is proposed to achieve the balance between the computational efficiency and quality of the mesh. Special attention is paid to the accuracy and robustness of the algorithm to guarantee its flawless performance in online simulations. Consistency of the algorithm is demonstrated on numerical examples including those of one or more ships crossing a dredged channel at oblique angle. In addition, possible applications to other problems of ocean and coastal engineering are briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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48. Smooth Mixture Estimation from Multichannel Image Data
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O’Sullivan, Finbarr, Page, Connie, editor, and LePage, Raoul, editor
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49. Designing Parallel Adaptive Laplacian Smoothing for Improving Tetrahedral Mesh Quality on the GPU
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Yinjie Sun, Lei Xiao, Gang Mei, and Ning Xi
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Technology ,Computer science ,QH301-705.5 ,QC1-999 ,tetrahedral mesh ,Graphics processing unit ,Parallel algorithm ,010103 numerical & computational mathematics ,01 natural sciences ,Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) ,General Materials Science ,mesh generation ,mesh quality ,adaptive laplacian smoothing ,0101 mathematics ,Biology (General) ,Instrumentation ,QD1-999 ,ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS ,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes ,Adaptive algorithm ,Process Chemistry and Technology ,Physics ,General Engineering ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,Computer Science Applications ,010101 applied mathematics ,Chemistry ,Computer Science::Graphics ,Mesh generation ,Metric (mathematics) ,Laplacian smoothing ,TA1-2040 ,Algorithm ,Laplace operator ,Smoothing - Abstract
Mesh quality is a critical issue in numerical computing because it directly impacts both computational efficiency and accuracy. Tetrahedral meshes are widely used in various engineering and science applications. However, in large-scale and complicated application scenarios, there are a large number of tetrahedrons, and in this case, the improvement of mesh quality is computationally expensive. Laplacian mesh smoothing is a simple mesh optimization method that improves mesh quality by changing the locations of nodes. In this paper, by exploiting the parallelism features of the modern graphics processing unit (GPU), we specifically designed a parallel adaptive Laplacian smoothing algorithm for improving the quality of large-scale tetrahedral meshes. In the proposed adaptive algorithm, we defined the aspect ratio as a metric to judge the mesh quality after each iteration to ensure that every smoothing improves the mesh quality. The adaptive algorithm avoids the shortcoming of the ordinary Laplacian algorithm to create potential invalid elements in the concave area. We conducted 5 groups of comparative experimental tests to evaluate the performance of the proposed parallel algorithm. The results demonstrated that the proposed adaptive algorithm is up to 23 times faster than the serial algorithms; and the accuracy of the tetrahedral mesh is satisfactorily improved after adaptive Laplacian mesh smoothing. Compared with the ordinary Laplacian algorithm, the proposed adaptive Laplacian algorithm is more applicable, and can effectively deal with those tetrahedrons with extremely poor quality. This indicates that the proposed parallel algorithm can be applied to improve the mesh quality in large-scale and complicated application scenarios.
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- 2021
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50. Oscillation of tweet sentiments in the election of João Doria Jr. for Mayor
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Rubens Mussi Cury
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Information Systems and Management ,lcsh:Computer engineering. Computer hardware ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Computer science ,Twitter ,lcsh:TK7885-7895 ,02 engineering and technology ,lcsh:QA75.5-76.95 ,Sentiment analysis ,020204 information systems ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Computational Science and Engineering ,Social media ,João Doria Jr ,Data mining ,computer.programming_language ,Information retrieval ,lcsh:T58.5-58.64 ,lcsh:Information technology ,Big data in politics ,Python (programming language) ,Visualization ,Hardware and Architecture ,020201 artificial intelligence & image processing ,lcsh:Electronic computers. Computer science ,Laplacian smoothing ,Tag cloud ,computer ,Information Systems - Abstract
The purpose of this work is to identify and analyze the oscillation of sentiments expressed by users of the Twitter social media through their direct replies to posts by user @jdoriajr that took place before, during and after the elections for mayor of the city of São Paulo in the year 2016. In order to make this research possible, we used Python 3.6.4 and the Searchtweets 1.6.1 library for consumption of the API Search Twitter, from which it was possible to extract 76,690 tweets. Text sentiment analysis was carried out through the Lexicon-Based Approach method and the Laplacian Smoothing calculation algorithm-which generated a rate that would represent a negative and a positive sentiment ranging from − 0.1306 (minimum) to 0.1489 (maximum) respectively, throughout the observed period. As additional tools, WordCloud and t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) Corpus Visualization were used for visualization of the word cloud and cluster, respectively, with both functionalities available at the Yellowbrick 0.8 package also for Python.
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- 2019
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