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Tight Bounds for the Learning of Homotopy à la Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger for Subsets of Euclidean Spaces and of Riemannian Manifolds

Authors: Dominique Attali, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Christopher Fillmore, Ishika Ghosh, André Lieutier, Elizabeth Stephenson, and Mathijs Wintraecken

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)


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In this article we extend and strengthen the seminal work by Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger on the learning of the homotopy type from a sample of an underlying space. In their work, Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger studied samples of C² manifolds with positive reach embedded in ℝ^d. We extend their results in the following ways: - As the ambient space we consider both ℝ^d and Riemannian manifolds with lower bounded sectional curvature. - In both types of ambient spaces, we study sets of positive reach - a significantly more general setting than C² manifolds - as well as general manifolds of positive reach. - The sample P of a set (or a manifold) 𝒮 of positive reach may be noisy. We work with two one-sided Hausdorff distances - ε and δ - between P and 𝒮. We provide tight bounds in terms of ε and δ, that guarantee that there exists a parameter r such that the union of balls of radius r centred at the sample P deformation-retracts to 𝒮. We exhibit their tightness by an explicit construction. We carefully distinguish the roles of δ and ε. This is not only essential to achieve tight bounds, but also sensible in practical situations, since it allows one to adapt the bound according to sample density and the amount of noise present in the sample separately.

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Dominique Attali, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Christopher Fillmore, Ishika Ghosh, André Lieutier, Elizabeth Stephenson, and Mathijs Wintraecken. Tight Bounds for the Learning of Homotopy à la Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger for Subsets of Euclidean Spaces and of Riemannian Manifolds. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 11:1-11:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{attali_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.11,
  author =	{Attali, Dominique and Dal Poz Kou\v{r}imsk\'{a}, Hana and Fillmore, Christopher and Ghosh, Ishika and Lieutier, Andr\'{e} and Stephenson, Elizabeth and Wintraecken, Mathijs},
  title =	{{Tight Bounds for the Learning of Homotopy \`{a} la Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger for Subsets of Euclidean Spaces and of Riemannian Manifolds}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-199565},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Homotopy, Inference, Sets of positive reach}
}
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The Medial Axis of Any Closed Bounded Set Is Lipschitz Stable with Respect to the Hausdorff Distance Under Ambient Diffeomorphisms

Authors: Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, André Lieutier, and Mathijs Wintraecken

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)


Abstract
We prove that the medial axis of closed sets is Hausdorff stable in the following sense: Let 𝒮 ⊆ ℝ^d be a fixed closed set that contains a bounding sphere. That is, the bounding sphere is part of the set 𝒮. Consider the space of C^{1,1} diffeomorphisms of ℝ^d to itself, which keep the bounding sphere invariant. The map from this space of diffeomorphisms (endowed with a Banach norm) to the space of closed subsets of ℝ^d (endowed with the Hausdorff distance), mapping a diffeomorphism F to the closure of the medial axis of F(𝒮), is Lipschitz. This extends a previous stability result of Chazal and Soufflet on the stability of the medial axis of C² manifolds under C² ambient diffeomorphisms.

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Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, André Lieutier, and Mathijs Wintraecken. The Medial Axis of Any Closed Bounded Set Is Lipschitz Stable with Respect to the Hausdorff Distance Under Ambient Diffeomorphisms. In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 69:1-69:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{dalpozkourimska_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.69,
  author =	{Dal Poz Kou\v{r}imsk\'{a}, Hana and Lieutier, Andr\'{e} and Wintraecken, Mathijs},
  title =	{{The Medial Axis of Any Closed Bounded Set Is Lipschitz Stable with Respect to the Hausdorff Distance Under Ambient Diffeomorphisms}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{69:1--69:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.69},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-200149},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.69},
  annote =	{Keywords: Medial axis, Hausdorff distance, Lipschitz continuity}
}
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Media Exposition
The Ultimate Frontier: An Optimality Construction for Homotopy Inference (Media Exposition)

Authors: Dominique Attali, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Christopher Fillmore, Ishika Ghosh, André Lieutier, Elizabeth Stephenson, and Mathijs Wintraecken

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 293, 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)


Abstract
In our companion paper "Tight bounds for the learning of homotopy à la Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger for subsets of Euclidean spaces and of Riemannian manifolds" we gave optimal bounds (in terms of the two one-sided Hausdorff distances) on a sample P of an input shape 𝒮 (either manifold or general set with positive reach) such that one can infer the homotopy of 𝒮 from the union of balls with some radius centred at P, both in Euclidean space and in a Riemannian manifold of bounded curvature. The construction showing the optimality of the bounds is not straightforward. The purpose of this video is to visualize and thus elucidate said construction in the Euclidean setting.

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Dominique Attali, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Christopher Fillmore, Ishika Ghosh, André Lieutier, Elizabeth Stephenson, and Mathijs Wintraecken. The Ultimate Frontier: An Optimality Construction for Homotopy Inference (Media Exposition). In 40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 293, pp. 87:1-87:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{attali_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.87,
  author =	{Attali, Dominique and Dal Poz Kou\v{r}imsk\'{a}, Hana and Fillmore, Christopher and Ghosh, Ishika and Lieutier, Andr\'{e} and Stephenson, Elizabeth and Wintraecken, Mathijs},
  title =	{{The Ultimate Frontier: An Optimality Construction for Homotopy Inference}},
  booktitle =	{40th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2024)},
  pages =	{87:1--87:6},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-316-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{293},
  editor =	{Mulzer, Wolfgang and Phillips, Jeff M.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.87},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-200325},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2024.87},
  annote =	{Keywords: Homotopy, Inference, Sets of positive reach}
}
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Delaunay-Like Triangulation of Smooth Orientable Submanifolds by 𝓁₁-Norm Minimization

Authors: Dominique Attali and André Lieutier

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 224, 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)


Abstract
In this paper, we focus on one particular instance of the shape reconstruction problem, in which the shape we wish to reconstruct is an orientable smooth submanifold of the Euclidean space. Assuming we have as input a simplicial complex K that approximates the submanifold (such as the Čech complex or the Rips complex), we recast the reconstruction problem as a 𝓁₁-norm minimization problem in which the optimization variable is a chain of K. Providing that K satisfies certain reasonable conditions, we prove that the considered minimization problem has a unique solution which triangulates the submanifold and coincides with the flat Delaunay complex introduced and studied in a companion paper [D. Attali and A. Lieutier, 2022]. Since the objective is a weighted 𝓁₁-norm and the contraints are linear, the triangulation process can thus be implemented by linear programming.

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Dominique Attali and André Lieutier. Delaunay-Like Triangulation of Smooth Orientable Submanifolds by 𝓁₁-Norm Minimization. In 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 224, pp. 8:1-8:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{attali_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.8,
  author =	{Attali, Dominique and Lieutier, Andr\'{e}},
  title =	{{Delaunay-Like Triangulation of Smooth Orientable Submanifolds by 𝓁₁-Norm Minimization}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-227-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{224},
  editor =	{Goaoc, Xavier and Kerber, Michael},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160162},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: manifold reconstruction, Delaunay complex, triangulation, sampling conditions, optimization, 𝓁₁-norm minimization, simplicial complex, chain, fundamental class}
}
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Lexicographic Optimal Homologous Chains and Applications to Point Cloud Triangulations

Authors: David Cohen-Steiner, André Lieutier, and Julien Vuillamy

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 164, 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)


Abstract
This paper considers a particular case of the Optimal Homologous Chain Problem (OHCP) for integer modulo 2 coefficients, where optimality is meant as a minimal lexicographic order on chains induced by a total order on simplices. The matrix reduction algorithm used for persistent homology is used to derive polynomial algorithms solving this problem instance, whereas OHCP is NP-hard in the general case. The complexity is further improved to a quasilinear algorithm by leveraging a dual graph minimum cut formulation when the simplicial complex is a pseudomanifold. We then show how this particular instance of the problem is relevant, by providing an application in the context of point cloud triangulation.

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David Cohen-Steiner, André Lieutier, and Julien Vuillamy. Lexicographic Optimal Homologous Chains and Applications to Point Cloud Triangulations. In 36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 164, pp. 32:1-32:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{cohensteiner_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.32,
  author =	{Cohen-Steiner, David and Lieutier, Andr\'{e} and Vuillamy, Julien},
  title =	{{Lexicographic Optimal Homologous Chains and Applications to Point Cloud Triangulations}},
  booktitle =	{36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-143-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{164},
  editor =	{Cabello, Sergio and Chen, Danny Z.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121908},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: OHCP, simplicial homology, triangulation, Delaunay}
}
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When Convexity Helps Collapsing Complexes

Authors: Dominique Attali, André Lieutier, and David Salinas

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 129, 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)


Abstract
This paper illustrates how convexity hypotheses help collapsing simplicial complexes. We first consider a collection of compact convex sets and show that the nerve of the collection is collapsible whenever the union of sets in the collection is convex. We apply this result to prove that the Delaunay complex of a finite point set is collapsible. We then consider a convex domain defined as the convex hull of a finite point set. We show that if the point set samples sufficiently densely the domain, then both the Cech complex and the Rips complex of the point set are collapsible for a well-chosen scale parameter. A key ingredient in our proofs consists in building a filtration by sweeping space with a growing sphere whose center has been fixed and studying events occurring through the filtration. Since the filtration mimics the sublevel sets of a Morse function with a single critical point, we anticipate this work to lay the foundations for a non-smooth, discrete Morse Theory.

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Dominique Attali, André Lieutier, and David Salinas. When Convexity Helps Collapsing Complexes. In 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 129, pp. 11:1-11:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{attali_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.11,
  author =	{Attali, Dominique and Lieutier, Andr\'{e} and Salinas, David},
  title =	{{When Convexity Helps Collapsing Complexes}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-104-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{129},
  editor =	{Barequet, Gill and Wang, Yusu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104152},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: collapsibility, convexity, collection of compact convex sets, nerve, filtration, Delaunay complex, Cech complex, Rips complex}
}
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The Reach, Metric Distortion, Geodesic Convexity and the Variation of Tangent Spaces

Authors: Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, André Lieutier, and Mathijs Wintraecken

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 99, 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018)


Abstract
In this paper we discuss three results. The first two concern general sets of positive reach: We first characterize the reach by means of a bound on the metric distortion between the distance in the ambient Euclidean space and the set of positive reach. Secondly, we prove that the intersection of a ball with radius less than the reach with the set is geodesically convex, meaning that the shortest path between any two points in the intersection lies itself in the intersection. For our third result we focus on manifolds with positive reach and give a bound on the angle between tangent spaces at two different points in terms of the distance between the points and the reach.

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Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, André Lieutier, and Mathijs Wintraecken. The Reach, Metric Distortion, Geodesic Convexity and the Variation of Tangent Spaces. In 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 99, pp. 10:1-10:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{boissonnat_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.10,
  author =	{Boissonnat, Jean-Daniel and Lieutier, Andr\'{e} and Wintraecken, Mathijs},
  title =	{{The Reach, Metric Distortion, Geodesic Convexity and the Variation of Tangent Spaces}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-066-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{99},
  editor =	{Speckmann, Bettina and T\'{o}th, Csaba D.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-87236},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reach, Metric distortion, Manifolds, Convexity}
}