Gaussian curvature: A growth parameter for biological structures

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

A Gaussian mixture model based cost function for parameter estimation of chaotic biological systems

Article history: Received 21 November 2012 Received in revised form 21 November 2013 Accepted 24 May 2014 Available online 6 June 2014

of non-positive Gaussian curvature

Minimizing Absolute Gaussian Curvature Locally

One of the remaining challenges when reconstructing a surface from a finite sample is recovering non-smooth surface features like sharp edges. There is practical evidence showing that a two step approach could be an aid to this problem, namely, first computing a polyhedral reconstruction isotopic to the sampled surface, and secondly minimizing the absolute Gaussian curvature of this reconstruct...

A novel variational model for image registration using Gaussian curvature

Image registration is one important task in many image processing applications. It aims to align two or more images so that useful information can be extracted through comparison, combination or superposition. This is achieved by constructing an optimal transformation which ensures that the template image becomes similar to a given reference image. Although many models exist, designing a model ...