Klas Modin PRO
Mathematician at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg
Source
Target
Q: What is a 'shape' ?
A: Anything diffeomorphisms act on
Distance between shapes =
shortest diffeomorphic warp
from source to target
Shape
analysis
Optimal transport
Information theory
Hydrodynamics
Non-linear Schrödinger eq.
Probability theory
Shallow water equations
Numerical analysis of PDE
Riemannian metric
Induces metric
[Arnold (1966), Benamou & Brenier (2000), Otto (2001)]
Invariance: η∈Diffμ(M)
Exactly L2-Wasserstein distance
Geodesic equation on TDiffμ/Diffμ≃Xμ
v˙+∇vv=−∇p
Geodesic equation on T∗(Diff/Diffμ)≃T∗P
S˙+21∣∇S∣=0ρ˙+div(ρ∇S)=0
v=∇S
By Klas Modin
A brief overview of shape analysis, aimed at a general mathematics crowd.
Mathematician at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg