Title
Controlling singular values with semidefinite programming
Abstract
Controlling the singular values of n-dimensional matrices is often required in geometric algorithms in graphics and engineering. This paper introduces a convex framework for problems that involve singular values. Specifically, it enables the optimization of functionals and constraints expressed in terms of the extremal singular values of matrices. Towards this end, we introduce a family of convex sets of matrices whose singular values are bounded. These sets are formulated using Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI), allowing optimization with standard convex Semidefinite Programming (SDP) solvers. We further show that these sets are optimal, in the sense that there exist no larger convex sets that bound singular values. A number of geometry processing problems are naturally described in terms of singular values. We employ the proposed framework to optimize and improve upon standard approaches. We experiment with this new framework in several applications: volumetric mesh deformations, extremal quasi-conformal mappings in three dimensions, non-rigid shape registration and averaging of rotations. We show that in all applications the proposed approach leads to algorithms that compare favorably to state-of-art algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2601097.2601142
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
simplicial meshes,singular values,optimization,semidefinite programming,computational geometry and object modeling
Graphics,Mathematical optimization,Singular value,Geometry processing,Matrix (mathematics),Singular solution,Regular polygon,Semidefinite programming,Mathematics,Bounded function
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.74
39
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shahar Z. Kovalsky119210.87
Noam Aigerman221512.60
Ronen Basri33467403.18
Yaron Lipman4168767.52