Networks of polynomial pieces with application to the analysis of point clouds and images

Journal of Approximation Theory

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-130

  Arias Castro, Ery ^a   Efros, Boris ^b   Levi, Ofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beamlets; Detection of filaments; Extracting information from graphs; H lder smoothness classes; Multiscale analysis; Piecewise polynomials

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450265713     PISSN: 00219045     EISSN: 10960430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jat.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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