A new algorithm for Computer Aided Geometric Design of least squares (LS) splines with variable knots, named GeDS, is presented. It is based on interpreting functional spline regression as a parametric B-spline curve, and on using the shape preserving property of its control polygon. The GeDS algorithm includes two major stages. For the first stage, an automatic adaptive, knot location algorith...

We study the problem of computing a planar curve, restricted to lie between two given polygonal chains, such that the integral of the square of arc-length derivative of curvature along the curve is minimized. We introduce the Minimum Variation B-spline problem which is a linearly constrained optimization problem over curves defined by Bspline functions only. An empirical investigation indicates...

We proposed the I-spline Smoothing approach for calibrating predictive models by solving a nonlinear monotone regression problem. We took advantage of I-spline properties to obtain globally optimal solutions while keeping the computational cost low. Numerical studies based on three data sets showed the empirical evidences of I-spline Smoothing in improving calibration (i.e.,1.6x, 1.4x, and 1.4x...

B-spline filter kernals have proved useful in many pixel sampling applications. A cubic B-spline filter kernal, having a width of four pixels, is particularly effective. In distribution ray tracing, pixel filters are evaluated implicitly by having the density of sampling proportional to the filter value. In this work we present a simple method to generate random samples having an underlying B-s...

The non-local hyperbolic partial differential equations have many applications in sciences and engineering. A collocation finite element approach based on exponential cubic B-spline and quintic B-spline are presented for the numerical solution of the wave equation subject to nonlocal boundary condition. Von Neumann stability analysis is used to analyze the proposed methods. The efficiency, accu...

The spline collocation method  is employed to solve a system of linear and nonlinear Fredholm and Volterra integro-differential equations. The solutions are collocated by cubic B-spline and the integrand is approximated by the Newton-Cotes formula. We obtain the unique solution for linear and nonlinear system $(nN+3n)times(nN+3n)$ of integro-differential equations. This approximation reduces th...

A constructive approach is adopted to build B-spline like basis for cubic spline curves with a more general continuity than beta-continuity. This method provides not only a large variety of very interesting shape controls like biased, point, and interval tensions but, as a special case, also recovers a number of spline methods like nu-spline of Nielson[9], beta-splines[1], gamma-splines of Boeh...

A 3D T-mesh is basically a partition of a cuboid such that every part is a smaller cuboid. In this paper we define the spline spaces over 3D T-meshes, which would play an important role in adaptive and dynamic implicit surface reconstruction from unorganized point clouds, and present a dimension formula about the spline space over a special kind of T-mesh, i.e., 3D hierarchical T-mesh. The form...

The biorthogonal wavelets introduced by Cohen, Daubechies, and Feauveau contain in particular compactly supported biorthogonal spline wavelets with compactly supported duals. We present a new approach for the construction of compactly supported spline wavelets, which is entirely based on properties of splines in the time domain. We are able to characterize a large class of such wavelets which c...