Computerized tomography as a non-destructive scanning method to analyze wood structures has become an important technique in tree research. The possibility to reconstruct three-dimensional volumes based on a number of slices of two-dimensional data from CT scans is strongly dependent on the number of measured slices. Radial basis function methods can be successfully used to interpolate CT image...

The problem of semi-cardinal spline interpolation was solved by Schoenberg exploiting the piecewise polynomial form of the splines. In the present paper, we propose a new construction for the Lagrange functions of semi-cardinal spline interpolation , based on a radial basis and Fourier transform approach. This approach suggests a way of extending semi-cardinal interpolation to polyharmonic spli...

When radial basis functions (RBFs) are made increasingly flat, the interpolation error typically decreases steadily until some point when Runge-type oscillations either halt or reverse this trend. Because the most obvious method to calculate an RBF interpolant becomes a numerically unstable algorithm for a stable problem in case of near-flat basis functions, there will typically also be a separ...

Inpainting is a method for repairing damaged images or to remove unwanted parts of an image. While this process has been performed by professional artists in the past, today, the use of this technology is emerging in the medical area – especially in the medical imaging realm. In this study, the proposed inpainting method uses a radial basis function (RBF) interpolation technique. We first expla...

We discuss the problem of constrained approximation and interpolation of scattered data by using compactly supported radial basis functions, subjected to the constraint of preserving positivity. The approaches are presented to compute positive approximation and interpolation by solving the two corresponding optimization problems. Numerical experiments are provided to illustrate that the propose...

For radial basis function interpolation of scattered data in IR d , the approximative reproduction of high-degree polynomials is studied. Results include uniform error bounds and convergence orders on compact sets. x1. Introduction We consider interpolation of real-valued functions f deened on a set IR d ; d 1. These functions are interpolated on a set X := fx 1 ; : : : ; x N X g of N X 1 pairw...

Casting is considered as a major manufacturing process. Thermal analysis of a solidifying medium is of great importance for appropriate design of casting processes. The conventional governing equation of a solidifying medium is based on the Fourier heat conduction law, which does not account for the phase-lag between the heat flux and the temperature gradient. In this paper, the concept of phas...

An improvement to the traditional Finite Volume Method (FVM) for the solution of boundary value problems is presented. The new method applies the local Hermitian interpolation with Radial Basis Functions (RBF) as an interpolation scheme to the FVM discretization. This approach, called the Control Volume-Radial Basis Function (CV-RBF) method, uses an interpolation scheme based on the meshless Sy...

Under very mild additional assumptions, translates of conditionally positive definite radial basis functions allow unique interpolation to scattered multivariate data, because the interpolation matrices have a symmetric and positive definite dominant part. In many applications, the data density varies locally, and then the translates should get different scalings that match the local data densi...

László T. Kóczy* **, Domonkos Tikk* ** and Tamás D. Gedeon** * Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary ** Murdoch University, Perth, W.A., Australia