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∙ 10/15/2021

A Neural Network Ensemble Approach to System Identification

We present a new algorithm for learning unknown governing equations from...

Elisa Negrini, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/20/2019

Estimating Emotional Intensity from Body Poses for Human-Robot Interaction

Equipping social and service robots with the ability to perceive human e...

Mingfei Sun, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/10/2023

Big Ideas in Sports Analytics and Statistical Tools for their Investigation

Sports analytics – broadly defined as the pursuit of improvement in athl...

Benjamin S. Baumer, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/30/2022

Every Combinatorial Polyhedron Can Unfold with Overlap

Ghomi proved that every convex polyhedron could be stretched via an affi...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/10/2022

Hamiltonian Quasigeodesics yield Nets

This note establishes that every polyhedron that has a Hamiltonian quasi...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/18/2022

RELIC: Retrieving Evidence for Literary Claims

Humanities scholars commonly provide evidence for claims that they make ...

Katherine Thai, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/09/2022

Simple Closed Quasigeodesics on Tetrahedra

Pogorelov proved in 1949 that every every convex polyhedron has at least...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/06/2021

Tensor Deblurring and Denoising Using Total Variation

We consider denoising and deblurring problems for tensors. While images ...

Fatoumata Sanogo, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/21/2021

Facilitating team-based data science: lessons learned from the DSC-WAV project

While coursework provides undergraduate data science students with some ...

Chelsey Legacy, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/15/2021

Combinatorial Resultants in the Algebraic Rigidity Matroid

Motivated by a rigidity-theoretic perspective on the Localization Proble...

Goran Malić, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/23/2020

"Playing the whole game": A data collection and analysis exercise with Google Calendar

We provide an exercise suitable for early introduction in an undergradua...

Albert Kim, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/21/2020

Integrating data science ethics into an undergraduate major: A case study

We present a programmatic approach to incorporating ethics into an under...

Benjamin S. Baumer, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/13/2019

Unfolding Polyhedra

Starting with the unsolved "Dürer's problem" of edge-unfolding a convex ...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/19/2019

Some Polycubes Have No Edge-Unzipping

It is unknown whether or not every polycube has an edge-unfolding. A pol...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/22/1998

Computational Geometry Column 33

Several recent SIGGRAPH papers on surface simplification are described....

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/12/2019

Let's Play Again: Variability of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents in Atari Environments

Reproducibility in reinforcement learning is challenging: uncontrolled s...

Kaleigh Clary, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/06/2018

ToyBox: Better Atari Environments for Testing Reinforcement Learning Agents

It is a widely accepted principle that software without tests has bugs. ...

John Foley, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/05/2018

Un-unzippable Convex Caps

An unzipping of a polyhedron P is a cut-path through its vertices that u...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/24/2018

Threadable Curves

We define a plane curve to be threadable if it can rigidly pass through ...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/01/2017

Angle-monotone Paths in Non-obtuse Triangulations

We reprove a result of Dehkordi, Frati, and Gudmundsson: every two verti...

Anna Lubiw, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/04/2017

Edge-Unfolding Nearly Flat Convex Caps

This paper proves a conjecture from [LO17]: A nearly flat, acutely trian...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/23/2017

A Grammar for Reproducible and Painless Extract-Transform-Load Operations on Medium Data

Many interesting data sets available on the Internet are of a medium siz...

Benjamin S. Baumer, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/02/2017

Addendum to: Edge-Unfolding Nearly Flat Convex Caps

This addendum to [O'R17] establishes that a nearly flat acutely triangul...

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/26/2017

Reduced Bias for respondent driven sampling: accounting for non-uniform edge sampling probabilities in people who inject drugs in Mauritius

People who inject drugs are an important population to study in order to...

Miles Q. Ott, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/22/1998

Computational Geometry Column 32

The proof of Dey's new k-set bound is illustrated....

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/01/2008

Morphing of Triangular Meshes in Shape Space

We present a novel approach to morph between two isometric poses of the ...

Stefanie Wuhrer, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/28/2000

Computational Geometry Column 38

Recent results on curve reconstruction are described....

Joseph O'Rourke, et al. ∙

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Joseph O'Rourke

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Goran Malić

A Neural Network Ensemble Approach to System Identification

Estimating Emotional Intensity from Body Poses for Human-Robot Interaction

Big Ideas in Sports Analytics and Statistical Tools for their Investigation

Every Combinatorial Polyhedron Can Unfold with Overlap

Hamiltonian Quasigeodesics yield Nets

RELIC: Retrieving Evidence for Literary Claims

Simple Closed Quasigeodesics on Tetrahedra

Tensor Deblurring and Denoising Using Total Variation

Facilitating team-based data science: lessons learned from the DSC-WAV project

Combinatorial Resultants in the Algebraic Rigidity Matroid

"Playing the whole game": A data collection and analysis exercise with Google Calendar

Integrating data science ethics into an undergraduate major: A case study

Unfolding Polyhedra

Some Polycubes Have No Edge-Unzipping

Computational Geometry Column 33

Let's Play Again: Variability of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents in Atari Environments

ToyBox: Better Atari Environments for Testing Reinforcement Learning Agents

Un-unzippable Convex Caps

Threadable Curves

Angle-monotone Paths in Non-obtuse Triangulations

Edge-Unfolding Nearly Flat Convex Caps

A Grammar for Reproducible and Painless Extract-Transform-Load Operations on Medium Data

Addendum to: Edge-Unfolding Nearly Flat Convex Caps

Reduced Bias for respondent driven sampling: accounting for non-uniform edge sampling probabilities in people who inject drugs in Mauritius

Computational Geometry Column 32

Morphing of Triangular Meshes in Shape Space

Computational Geometry Column 38