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On Qualitative Shape Inferences: a journey from geometry to topology
Steven W Zucker
Shape inference is classically ill-posed, because it involves a map from the (2D) image domain to the (3D) world. Standard approaches regularize this problem by either assuming a p…
From Boundaries to Bumps: when closed (extremal) contours are critical
Benjamin Kunsberg, Steven W. Zucker
Invariants underlying shape inference are elusive: a variety of shapes can give rise to the same image, and a variety of images can be rendered from the same shape. The occluding c…
Feature Selection Facilitates Learning Mixtures of Discrete Product Distributions
Vincent Zhao, Steven W. Zucker
Feature selection can facilitate the learning of mixtures of discrete random variables as they arise, e.g. in crowdsourcing tasks. Intuitively, not all workers are equally reliable…
What's In A Patch, I: Tensors, Differential Geometry and Statistical Shading Analysis
Daniel Niels Holtmann-Rice, Benjamin S. Kunsberg, Steven W. Zucker
We develop a linear algebraic framework for the shape-from-shading problem, because tensors arise when scalar (e.g. image) and vector (e.g. surface normal) fields are differentiate…
Distance Maps and Plant Development #2: Facilitated Transport and Uniform Gradient
Pavel Dimitrov, Steven W. Zucker
The principles underlying plant development are extended to allow a more molecular mechanism to elaborate the schema by which ground cells differentiate into vascular cells. Biophy…
Distance Maps and Plant Development #1: Uniform Production and Proportional Destruction
Pavel Dimitrov, Steven W. Zucker
Experimental data regarding auxin and venation formation exist at both macroscopic and molecular scales, and we attempt to unify them into a comprehensive model for venation format…