articleBulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyOct 26, 2007DIAMOND OA

Barcodes: The persistent topology of data

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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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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Keywords
  • Topological data analysis
  • Persistent homology
  • Point cloud
  • Computational topology
  • Algebraic topology
  • Homology (biology)
  • Topology (electrical circuits)
  • Computer science
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