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28 November 2019

Docking ring is a circular hatch of spacecraft that allows servicing spacecraft to dock in various space missions. The detection of the ring is greatly beneficial to automatic capture, rendezvous and docking. Based on its geometrical shape, we propos...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,348 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2020

Elementary Geometrical Shape (EGS) models present an alternative approach to detect in vivo migration of total hip arthroplasty using model-based Roentgen Stereophotogrammetric Analysis (mbRSA). However, its applicability for an irregular-shaped femo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,355 Views
13 Pages

16 December 2022

The preponderance of laser beam shapes cannot be ruled out during the implementation of an optical experiment nor during the formulation of its theoretical background. The present work elucidates the role of Gaussian and top-hat beam shapes in genera...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,712 Views
14 Pages

All human communication involves the use of signs. By following a mutually shared set of signs and rules, meaning can be conveyed from one entity to another. Cartographic semiology provides such a theoretical framework, suggesting how to apply visual...

  • Feature Paper
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
33 Citations
15,546 Views
18 Pages

Modern methods of image analysis are based on the coordinates of the points making the silhouette of an image and allow the comparison between seed shape in different species and varieties. Nevertheless, these methods miss an important reference poin...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,854 Views
31 Pages

12 June 2020

The main objective of this paper is to construct the various shapes and font designing of curves and to describe the curvature by using parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized hybrid trigonometric Bézier (GHT-Bézi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,112 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2021

In order to solve the problem of geometric design and architectural design of complex engineering surface, we introduce the parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized C-Bézier curves and surfaces with shape parameters. Firstly, ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,084 Views
21 Pages

Semi-Automated Segmentation of Geometric Shapes from Point Clouds

  • Richard Honti,
  • Ján Erdélyi and
  • Alojz Kopáčik

14 September 2022

Building information models (BIM) in the civil industry are very popular nowadays. The basic information of these models is the 3D geometric model of a building structure. The most applied methodology to model the existing buildings is by generating...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,332 Views
10 Pages

An S-shaped machining test is proposed for the ISO 10791-7 standard to verify the performance of five-axis machining centers. However, investigation of the factor that has the most influence on the geometrical accuracy of finished S-shaped workpieces...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,450 Views
10 Pages

11 December 2023

The investigation of a Brownian particle subjected to an AC force that diffuses within a T-shaped chamber was conducted. This T-shaped chamber is composed of a strip cavity and a trapezoidal cavity positioned below it. The interplay between the AC fo...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,653 Views
12 Pages

13 April 2020

The increasing activity in morphological studies has provided new tools to analyses the shape quantitatively, these quantitative measurements allow the researcher to examine the variation in shape and perform analysis to examine the quantitative diff...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,577 Views
15 Pages

End-to-End Deep Learning of Joint Geometric Probabilistic Shaping Using a Channel-Sensitive Autoencoder

  • Yuzhe Li,
  • Huan Chang,
  • Ran Gao,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Feng Tian,
  • Haipeng Yao,
  • Qinghua Tian,
  • Yongjun Wang,
  • Xiangjun Xin and
  • Fu Wang
  • + 1 author

13 October 2023

In this paper, we propose an innovative channel-sensitive autoencoder (CSAE)-aided end-to-end deep learning (E2EDL) technique for joint geometric probabilistic shaping. The pretrained conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN) is introduced in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,795 Views
18 Pages

28 February 2020

A special V-shaped support for blended wing body aircraft was designed and applied in high-speed wind tunnel tests. In order to reduce the support interference and explore the design criteria of the V-shaped support, interference characteristics and...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,026 Views
23 Pages

25 April 2025

The rapid measurement of three-dimensional bridge geometric shapes is crucial for assessing construction quality and in-service structural conditions. Existing geometric shape measurement methods predominantly rely on traditional surveying instrument...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,964 Views
15 Pages

Since visible-light communication (VLC) has become an increasingly promising candidate for 6G, the field of underwater visible-light communication (UVLC) has also garnered significant attention. However, the impairments introduced by practical system...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,749 Views
17 Pages

6 April 2024

This study presents an optimal design for a new rotary engine. Instantaneous shape functions were applied to the combustion chamber, and intake and exhaust ports were derived based on the rotor and housing design functions; then optimized design para...

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  • Open Access
6,262 Views
23 Pages

Adapting the Formula for Planar Spiral Inductors’ Inductance Computation to the New Oval Geometric Shape, Ideal for Designing Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Smart Devices

  • Claudia Pacurar,
  • Vasile Topa,
  • Claudia Constantinescu,
  • Calin Munteanu,
  • Marian Gliga,
  • Sergiu Andreica and
  • Adina Giurgiuman

22 January 2025

The most used spiral inductors, in the available scientific literature and in our research activities, so far, have been those with square, hexagonal, octagonal, and circular geometric shapes. Geometry plays an important role in the efficiency of the...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,992 Views
10 Pages

Differences in Tibia Shape in Organically Reared Chicken Lines Measured by Means of Geometric Morphometrics

  • Domitilla Pulcini,
  • David Meo Zilio,
  • Francesco Cenci,
  • Cesare Castellini and
  • Monica Guarino Amato

6 January 2021

In the present study, the conformation of the tibia of seven genetic lines of broilers was analyzed by Geometric Morphometrics and correlated to carcass weight and walking ability. The used chicken genetic lines were classified as fast, medium, or sl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,797 Views
12 Pages

An Overview of Interlocation Sexual Shape Dimorphism in Caquetaia kraussi (Perciformes: Cichlidae): A Geometric Morphometric Approach

  • Jordan Hernandez,
  • Amado Villalobos-Leiva,
  • Adriana Bermúdez,
  • Daniela Ahumada-Cabarcas,
  • Manuel J. Suazo and
  • Hugo A. Benítez

23 June 2022

C. kraussii is an endemic fish species from Colombia and Venezuela and represents a valuable food resource for local human communities. Due to its economic importance, the management and captive breeding of this species are of special interest. Howev...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,620 Views
10 Pages

Deciphering the Hearts: Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Shape Variation in Abatus Sea Urchins across Subantarctic and Antarctic Seas

  • Fernando Moya,
  • Jordan Hernández,
  • Manuel J. Suazo,
  • Thomas Saucède,
  • Paul Brickle,
  • Elie Poulin and
  • Hugo A. Benítez

16 August 2024

Abatus is a genus of irregular brooding sea urchins to the Southern Ocean. Among the 11 described species, three shared morphological traits and present an infaunal lifestyle in the infralittoral from the Subantarctic province; A. cavernosus in Patag...

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  • Open Access
485 Views
12 Pages

Unraveling Wing Shape Variation in Malaria Mosquitoes from the Arctic Edge: A Geometric Morphometric Study in Western Siberia

  • Ximena Calderon,
  • Gleb Artemov,
  • Vladimir A. Burlak,
  • Svetlana Alexeeva,
  • Raquel Hernández-P,
  • Manuel J. Suazo,
  • Laura M. Pérez,
  • Hugo A. Benítez and
  • Margarita Correa

11 October 2025

In Russia, Western Siberia, Anopheles from maculipennis subgroup comprises three vector species: An. messeae, An. daciae, An. beklemishevi, and the hybrid between An. messeae and An. daciae (Anopheles m-d), which exhibit complex cryptic morphological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,054 Views
19 Pages

Geometrical Segmentation of Multi-Shape Point Clouds Based on Adaptive Shape Prediction and Hybrid Voting RANSAC

  • Bo Xu,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Qing Zhu,
  • Xuming Ge,
  • Shengzhi Huang,
  • Yeting Zhang,
  • Tianyang Liu and
  • Di Wu

22 April 2022

This work proposes the use of a robust geometrical segmentation algorithm to detect inherent shapes from dense point clouds. The points are first divided into voxels based on their connectivity and normal consistency. Then, the voxels are classified...

  • Article
  • Open Access
524 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2025

This paper aims to study the mechanism of avoiding the S-shaped region (S-shaped region, SFR) during the startup of pumped storage units (pumped storage units, PSUs). Firstly, the state space model of the PSU in frequency mode is built using the tran...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,058 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2024

For high-speed optical communication systems, laser phase noise (LPN) stands as a pivotal factor influencing the quality of the received signal. Therefore, the employment of a highly accurate carrier phase recovery (CPR) algorithm at the receiving en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,581 Views
25 Pages

25 August 2017

Improving the matching reliability of multi-sensor imagery is one of the most challenging issues in recent years, particularly for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical images. It is difficult to deal with the noise influence, geometric distorti...

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  • Open Access
1,809 Views
10 Pages

Assessment of the Influence of the Geometrical Shape of the Damper on the Efficiency of an Ultrasonic Operation Piezoelectric Transducer

  • M. S. Vechera,
  • S. I. Konovalov,
  • R. S. Konovalov,
  • B. I,
  • V. M. Tsaplev,
  • A. D. Soloveva and
  • J. Lee

6 December 2023

The results of a study on the geometric shape of the damper on the efficiency of the ultrasonic piezoelectric transducer are presented. In particular, a damper in the form of a truncated cone is considered, the generatrix of which has an inclination...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,302 Views
11 Pages

30 December 2021

A number of pennate diatom genera typically have teratogenic deformations of their siliceous frustules due to the effects of environmental stress, such as high concentrations of heavy metals and low pH. However, the quantitative assessment of these d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,829 Views
13 Pages

8 May 2019

Constellation shaping has been widely used in optical communication systems. We review recent advances in two-dimensional constellation shaping technologies for fiber-optic communications. The system architectures that are discussed include probabili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,818 Views
11 Pages

2 March 2022

In this paper, an experimental study investigating the effect of the geometrical shape of the circular and rectangular pin fins on the heat transfer performance and the boiling phenomenon is presented. A pool boiling experiment in the HFE-7100 dielec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,821 Views
10 Pages

An Angiosperm Species Dataset Reveals Relationships between Seed Size and Two-Dimensional Shape

  • Emilio Cervantes,
  • José Javier Martín Gómez,
  • Diego Gutiérrez del Pozo and
  • Luís Silva Dias

Datasets containing information on seed size have been published and are currently available. Nevertheless, there is a lack in the literature of a dataset dedicated to seed shape. We present a preliminary version for a dataset on seed morphology base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,443 Views
10 Pages

29 May 2021

The analysis of body shape variability has always been a central element in biology. More recently, geometric morphometry has developed as a new field in shape analysis, with the aim to study body morphological variations and the identification of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,426 Views
24 Pages

The local controlled generalized H-Bézier model is one of the most useful tools for shape designs and geometric representations in computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), which is owed to its good geometric properties, e.g., symmetry and shape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,716 Views
22 Pages

The study of spatial geometric similarity plays a significant role in spatial data retrieval. Many researchers have examined spatial geometric similarity, which is useful for spatial analysis and data retrieval. However, the majority of them focused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,600 Views
22 Pages

Design of Novel Cooling Systems Based on Metal Plates with Channels of Shapes Inspired by Nature

  • José Félix Guil-Pedrosa,
  • Luis Miguel García-Gutiérrez,
  • Eduardo Cano-Pleite and
  • Antonio Soria-Verdugo

25 March 2022

The effect of the channel shape of aluminum plates on cooling capacity was evaluated by studying different configurations. Common shapes of the channel, such as square and fork shapes, were compared with novel configurations inspired by shapes found...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,541 Views
13 Pages

6 August 2020

This paper presents the results of numerical simulations on three main factors and their influence on the buckling resistance of reinforcing bars and on their behaviour in the range of postcritical deformations. These three factors are the shape of i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,548 Views
11 Pages

Examination of Shape Variation of the Skull in British Shorthair, Scottish Fold, and Van Cats

  • Ozan Gündemir,
  • Tomasz Szara,
  • Ebru Eravci Yalin,
  • Murat Karabagli,
  • Zihni Mutlu,
  • Osman Yilmaz,
  • Serkan Kemal Büyükünal,
  • Milos Blagojevic and
  • Pere M. Parés-Casanova

9 February 2023

A variety of skull shapes are frequently used for discrimination between animal species, breeds, and sexes. In this study, skulls of three different breeds of cats were examined by the geometric morphometric method, with the aim of revealing skull sh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,157 Views
15 Pages

Golden Angle Modulation in Complex Dimension Two

  • Kejia Hu,
  • Hongyi Li,
  • Di Zhao and
  • Yuan Jiang

26 January 2025

In this paper, we propose a new geometric-shaping design for golden angle modulation (GAM) based on the complex geometric properties of open symmetrized bidisc, termed Bd-GAM, for future generation wireless communication systems. Inspired from the ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,749 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of the Structure and Geometric Properties of Crushed Igneous Rock Aggregates

  • Paweł Strzałkowski,
  • Magdalena Duchnowska,
  • Urszula Kaźmierczak,
  • Alicja Bakalarz,
  • Michał Wolny,
  • Piotr Karwowski and
  • Tomasz Stępień

25 November 2021

The aim of this publication is to analyze the influence of rock mineral composition and rock geometric properties on the quality of crushed aggregates, from the perspective of selecting an adequate aggregate production technology. This research is ba...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,857 Views
47 Pages

A Literature Review: Geometric Methods and Their Applications in Human-Related Analysis

  • Wenjuan Gong,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Chaoqi Wang,
  • Hanbing Yue,
  • Chuantao Li,
  • Linjie Xing,
  • Yu Qiao,
  • Weishan Zhang and
  • Faming Gong

23 June 2019

Geometric features, such as the topological and manifold properties, are utilized to extract geometric properties. Geometric methods that exploit the applications of geometrics, e.g., geometric features, are widely used in computer graphics and compu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,070 Views
32 Pages

Generalized Fractional Bézier Curve with Shape Parameters

  • Syed Ahmad Aidil Adha Said Mad Zain,
  • Md Yushalify Misro and
  • Kenjiro T. Miura

2 September 2021

The construction of new basis functions for the Bézier or B-spline curve has been one of the most popular themes in recent studies in Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD). Implementing the new basis functions with shape parameters provides a differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,951 Views
13 Pages

14 February 2022

As a very common type of laser additive manufacturing technology, laser material deposition (LMD) is widely used, having exceptional application advantages including surface enhancing, repairing damaged parts with high value-add, and building functio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,263 Views
16 Pages

Seed Morphology in the Vitaceae Based on Geometric Models

  • José Javier Martín-Gómez,
  • Diego Gutiérrez del Pozo,
  • Mariano Ucchesu,
  • Gianluigi Bacchetta,
  • Félix Cabello Sáenz de Santamaría,
  • Ángel Tocino and
  • Emilio Cervantes

Morphometric methods based on artificial vision algorithms provide measurements for magnitudes descriptive of seed images (i.e., the length, width, area, and surface circularity index). Nevertheless, their results frequently omit the resemblance of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,743 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Generalization of Bézier-like Curves and Surfaces with Shape Parameters

  • Moavia Ameer,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad and
  • Tahir Nazir

26 January 2022

Bézier curves and surfaces with shape parameters have received more attention in the field of engineering and technology in recent years because of their useful geometric properties as compared to classical Bézier curves, as well as tra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
378 Citations
45,791 Views
92 Pages

2 June 2015

Approximately two decades after the first pioneering analyses, the study of shape asymmetry with the methods of geometric morphometrics has matured and is a burgeoning field. New technology for data collection and new methods and software for analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,864 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2021

Morphometrics has been used on Triatomines, a well-known phenotypically variable insect, to understand the process of morphological plasticity and infer the changes of this phenomenon. The following research was carried out in two regions of the inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,778 Views
20 Pages

10 June 2021

The paper presents the genesis of village borders’ shape formed in the Middle Ages and presents rules according to which demarcations were made. The hypothesis that the borders formed in the Middle Ages had a shape similar to a circle or segment of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,177 Views
24 Pages

20 May 2021

Linear and geometric morphometrics approaches were conducted to analyze the head capsule (HC) shape of collected soldier caste specimens of Coptotermes from various locations in Indonesia. The soldiers’ morphology was observed and measured. The resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,019 Views
42 Pages

Improving Patch Antenna Performance Through Resonators: Insights into and Benefits of Dielectric and Conductive Materials and Geometric Shapes

  • Cláudia M. S. Fonseca,
  • Chryslène M. M. Adetonah,
  • Luís Guilherme S. Costa,
  • Benigno R. Díaz,
  • Marco Aurélio O. Schroeder,
  • Glaucio L. Ramos and
  • Moisés V. Ribeiro

This paper investigates the usefulness of combining dielectric and conductive materials with various geometries to build resonators and enhance patch antenna performance when considering the decoupled design approach. Three materials (distilled water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,374 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2017

The geometrical accuracy of the machined surface can generally be understood mainly as accuracy of shape, orientation, position and run-out. As a general rule; it is quantified by the corresponding deviations from the nominal area. The size of the ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,876 Views
10 Pages

Shape as a Key to Taxonomy: Morphometric Analysis of Tetropium Species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

  • Allan H. Smith-Pardo,
  • Steven W. Lingafelter,
  • David Laroze,
  • Alejandro Piñeiro-Gonzalez and
  • Hugo A. Benítez

4 April 2025

The study of shape by the use of geometric morphometrics has been an important tool for addressing taxonomic challenges in complex groups like the genus Tetropium Kirby, 1837 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). This insect genus includes 28 species, 8 of whi...

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