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Publications [#330207] of Christopher Tralie
Papers Published
- Tralie, C, High Dimensional Geometry of Sliding Window Embeddings of Periodic Videos,
Proceedings of the 32st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SOCG)
(June, 2016)
(last updated on 2019/01/06)
Abstract: We explore the high dimensional geometry of sliding windows of periodic videos. Under a reas-
onable model for periodic videos, we show that the sliding window is necessary to disambiguate
all states within a period, and we show that a video embedding with a sliding window of an
appropriate dimension lies on a topological loop along a hypertorus. This hypertorus has an in-
dependent ellipse for each harmonic of the motion. Natural motions with sharp transitions from
foreground to background have many harmonics and are hence in higher dimensions, so linear
subspace projections such as PCA do not accurately summarize the geometry of these videos.
Noting this, we invoke tools from topological data analysis and cohomology to parameterize mo-
tions in high dimensions with circular coordinates after the embeddings. We show applications
to videos in which there is obvious periodic motion and to videos in which the motion is hidden.
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