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Jan Reininghaus¹, Natallia Kotava, David Günther

¹Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany. reininghaus@zib.de

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Area of Science:

Computational geometry
Data analysis
Image processing

Background:

Critical points are essential features in 2D scalar fields.
Existing importance measures may lack robustness to noise or fail to distinguish between different types of extrema.
Homological persistence is a powerful tool for analyzing topological features.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel importance measure for critical points in 2D scalar fields.
To enhance noise robustness and differentiate extrema based on spatial extent and persistence.
To develop an efficient and scalable computation method.

Main Methods:

Combining deep structure of scale space with homological persistence.
Enhancing noise-robust persistence by considering spatial extent of maxima and minima.
Developing an efficient out-of-core computation algorithm.

Main Results:

A new importance measure for critical points is introduced.
The measure effectively distinguishes between different types of extrema (hill-like, ridge-like, outlier-like).
The method demonstrates efficient computation and scalability on synthetic and real-world data.

Conclusions:

The proposed importance measure offers a robust and efficient way to analyze critical points in 2D scalar fields.
This method has practical relevance for various data analysis applications.
The approach provides a foundation for more sophisticated topological data analysis techniques.