Persistence Cycles for Visual Exploration of Persistent Homology

Persistent homology is a fundamental tool in topological data analysis used for the most diverse applications. Information captured by persistent homology is commonly visualized using scatter plots representations. Despite being widely adopted, such a visualization technique limits user understandin...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 28(2022), 12 vom: 02. Dez., Seite 4966-4979
1. Verfasser: Iuricich, Federico (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Persistent homology is a fundamental tool in topological data analysis used for the most diverse applications. Information captured by persistent homology is commonly visualized using scatter plots representations. Despite being widely adopted, such a visualization technique limits user understanding and is prone to misinterpretation. This article proposes a new approach for the efficient computation of persistence cycles, a geometric representation of the features captured by persistent homology. We illustrate the importance of rendering persistence cycles when analyzing scalar fields, and we discuss the advantages that our approach provides compared to other techniques in topology-based visualization. We provide an efficient implementation of our approach based on discrete Morse theory, as a new module for the Topology Toolkit. We show that our implementation has comparable performance with respect to state-of-the-art toolboxes while providing a better framework for visually analyzing persistent homology information
Beschreibung:Date Revised 27.10.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2021.3110663