Stephan Huckemann — Page 2

arXiv2010

Intrinsic Inference on the Mean Geodesic of Planar Shapes and Tree Discrimination by Leaf Growth

For planar landmark based shapes, taking into account the non-Euclidean geometry of the shape space, a statistical test for a common mean first geodesic principal component (GPC) is devised. It rests on one of two asymptotic scenarios, both of which are identical in a Euclidean geometry. For both scenarios, strong consistency and central limit theorems are established, along with an algorithm for the computation of a Ziezold mean geodesic. In application, this allows to verify the geodesic hypothesis for leaf growth of Canadian black poplars and to discriminate genetically different trees by observations of leaf shape growth over brief time intervals. With a test based on Procrustes tangent space coordinates, not involving the shape space's curvature, neither can be achieved.

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arXiv2010

Dynamic shape analysis and comparison of leaf growth

In the statistical analysis of shape a goal beyond the analysis of static shapes lies in the quantification of `same' deformation of different shapes. Typically, shape spaces are modelled as Riemannian manifolds on which parallel transport along geodesics naturally qualifies as a measure for the `similarity' of deformation. Since these spaces are usually defined as combinations of Riemannian immersions and submersions, only for few well featured spaces such as spheres or complex projective spaces (which are Kendall's spaces for 2D shapes), parallel transport along geodesics can be computed explicitly. In this contribution a general numerical method to compute parallel transport along geodesics when no explicit formula is available is provided. This method is applied to the shape spaces of closed 2D contours based on angular direction and to Kendall's spaces of shapes of arbitrary dimension. In application to the temporal evolution of leaf shape over a growing period, one leaf's shape-growth dynamics can be applied to another leaf. For a specific poplar tree investigated it is found that leaves of initially and terminally different shape evolve rather parallel, i.e. with comparable dynamics.

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