DIKU Bits: A visual tour of shape analysis

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Speaker

Morten Akhøj Pedersen, Postdoc in the Pioneer AI (P1AI) section.

Title

A visual tour of shape analysis

Abstract

In the field of 'shape analysis' we construct a mathematical space in which each point represents a shape, e.g. a curve or a surface. This talk illustrates this space of shapes: what does the shortest path from a dog to a cat look like? How about a random walk starting from a butterfly? How can we do statistics and machine learning on a set of shapes? Answers to such questions are important in e.g. evolutionary biology, which is the focus of our Center for Computational Evolutionary Morphology.