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Barcodes: The persistent topology of data
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 61-75

Abstract:

This article surveys recent work of Carlsson and collaborators on applications of computational algebraic topology to problems of feature detection and shape recognition in high-dimensional data. The primary mathematical tool considered is a homology theory for point-cloud data sets—persistent homology—and a novel representation of this algebraic characterization—barcodes. We sketch an application of these techniques to the classification of natural images.
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Additional Information
  • Robert Ghrist
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
  • MR Author ID: 346210
  • Received by editor(s): May 16, 2007
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 4, 2007
  • Published electronically: October 26, 2007
  • Additional Notes: This article is based on the lecture presented at the January 2007 national meeting of the AMS in New Orleans. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of DARPA #HR0011-07-1-0002 and the helpful comments of G. Carlsson, V. de Silva, and A. Zomorodian. The work reviewed in this article is funded by the DARPA program TDA: Topological Data Analysis.
  • © Copyright 2007 Robert W. Ghrist
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 61-75
  • MSC (2000): Primary 55N35; Secondary 62H35
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01191-3
  • MathSciNet review: 2358377