The ability to quickly and intuitively edit digital contents has become increasingly important in our everyday life. We propose a novel method for propagating a sparse set of user edits (e.g., changes in color, brightness, contrast, etc.) expressed as casual strokes to nearby regions in an image or video with similar appearances. Existing methods for edit propagation are typically based on opti...

Graphs of the single-step operator for first-order logic programs — displayed in the real plane — exhibit self-similar structures known from topological dynamics, i.e. they appear to be fractals, or more precisely, attractors of iterated function systems. We show that this observation can be made mathematically precise. In particular, we give conditions which ensure that those graphs coincide w...

The approximate cardinal basis function (ACBF) preconditioning technique has been used to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) with radial basis functions (RBFs). In [31], a preconditioning scheme that is based upon constructing the least-squares approximate cardinal basis function from linear combinations of the RBF-PDE matrix elements has shown very attractive numerical results. This p...

Numerical solutions of the Helmholtz equation suffer from numerical pollution especially for the case of high wavenumbers. The major component of the numerical pollution is, as has been reported in the literature, the dispersion error which is defined as the phase difference between the numerical and the exact wave. The dispersion error for the meshless methods can be a priori determined at an ...

The present paper is devoted to the development of a kind of spectral meshless radial point interpolation (SMRPI) technique in order to obtain a reliable approximate solution for buckling of nano-actuators subject to different nonlinear forces. To end this aim, a general type of the governing equation for nano-actuators, containing integro-differential terms and nonlinear forces is considered. ...

In this paper, we present a numerical method for solving Hallen’s integral equation based on radial basis functions (RBFs). This method will represent the solution of Hallen’s integral equation by interpolating the radial basis functions based on Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto(LGL) nodes and weights. The numerical results show that the proposed method for Hallen’s integral equation is very accurate and...

In this paper, bending analysis of concentric and eccentric beam stiffened square and rectangular plate using the meshless collocation method has been investigated. For detecting the governing equations of plate and beams, Mindlin plate theory and Timoshenko beam theory have been used, respectively, with the stiffness matrices of the plate and the beams obtained separately. The stiffness matric...

Radial basis functions are traditional and powerful tools for multivariate interpolation from scattered data. This self-contained talk surveys both theoretical and practical aspects of scattered data fitting by radial basis functions. To this end, basic features of the radial basis function interpolation scheme are first reviewed, such as well-posedness, numerical stability and approximation or...

Implicit surfaces are often created by summing a collection of radial basis functions. Recently, researchers have begun to create implicit surfaces that exactly interpolate a given set of points by solving a simple linear system to assign weights to each basis function. Due to their ability to interpolate, these implicit surfaces are more easily controllable than traditional “blobby” implicits....