To calculate an approximate solution to the classic (Laplace-Beltrami) inverse spectral problem for discrete (genus 0) surfaces.
Included is a suite of MATLAB codes implementing the naive direct gradient descent approach.
test_script.m is the top-level script that generates results.
Project envisioned, advised, and supervised by Prof. Etienne Vouga and Prof. Keenan Crane
Some codes here (on mesh optimization and a demo of spherical harmonics) are not mine.
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use conformalized mean curvature flow (cMCF) to get a spherical mesh with a target set of conformal factors from a target mesh
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use BFGS descent search for some conformal factors that achieve a spectrum similar to the one desired
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embed the metric to a resulting mesh from the sphere by optimizing edge lengths obtained from the factors
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compare with the target mesh, target spectrum, and cMCF conformal factors
)_e0.1-1p0.5.gif "discrete Y33 spherical harmonic target with varying percent of eigenvalues used")
)_e0.1p0.5-2.gif "discrete Y32 spherical harmonic target with varying amount of deformation")
(cheating) optimize for cMCF spectrum instead
)_e0.1p0.5-2.gif "discrete Y32 spherical harmonic target with varying amount of deformation")
Tests with Spot the cow
smoothed cow without bi-laplacian regularization
original spot with regularization
Tests with bunny
recursive run
finer mesh recursive run
Before and After (with minor smoothing)
even finer mesh recursive run
"Mesh-free" Spherical Harmonic Basis Solution
From now on we have number of eigenvalues used = number of free SH basis function coefficient = n, LB operator expanded in 961 SH basis functions
PL spectrum as target: n = 36
n = 49
n = 64
SH spectrum as target (cheating): n = 49
Results were adjusted up to SO(3) to mod out the rigid rotation ambiguity
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(ongoing) without prior knowledge of the target mesh, we will have to start from a uniform (coarse) spherical mesh and develop a suitable adaptive refinement scheme
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(banging my head) why does high frequency data matter in the FEM/hat function basis? the current way involves optimizing for them and then penalize for its noisyness via regularization, which seems very silly...
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in practice the inverse problem would not be about the Laplace-Beltrami operator (need to consider bending energy of thin shell etc.)
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in practice higher frequencies will most definitly be prohibitively noisy
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can we guess the topology beforehand? would higher genus surfaces work in similar fashion despite planarity/hyperbolicity? (e.g. there are known non-trivial isospectral hyperbolic (g>5) surfaces...) (Yes. Reuter, Wolter, Peinecke 2006 ~ first 500 eigenvalues)