Thinking Geometrically De-Li Zhao [email protected] Apr. 22, 2006 The growing impact of geometry on science compels researchers to think  geometrically.  "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here", inscribed on Plato's Academy. This motto bespoke the importance of geometry 2300 years ago. When reading it today, scientists can’t help worshiping the foresight and wisdom of the great philosopher, for geometry has been in almost every corner of science. From relativity and quantum computation to signal processing, image processing, and data analysis, geometric ideas and methods are leading the trend of development of scientific algorithms. We are now embracing a new era of thinking geometrically in science. Up to now, geometry is the most appropriate tool to model our world. What is profitable is that researchers can gain some greater insights for emerging fields in science since geometry is a more mature field. Very recently, Nielsen et al. (1) presented a geometric idea concerning quantum computation. By recasting the problem of determining the number of logical gates as a geometric problem, they showed that the number of gates required to synthesize the unitary is essentially equivalent to the minimal geodesic distance between the identity operation and the unitary one. Tightly related to Nielsen’s thinking is the method of geodesic search (2,3) applied for optimization with orthogonality constraints in signal processing. The optimization is performed along geodesics on the manifold formed by the orthogonal group. These two methods, stemming from different fields, share the similarly geometric principle. Actually, the potential applications of geometry in engineer are beyond those considered above. The geometry of Grassman and Stiefel manifolds has been successfully applied for the computations of electronic structures (4) and the representations of digital images (5,6). Abstract geodesics and minimal surfaces play essential roles in image segmentation (7,8). The conformal geometry of surfaces is increasingly of interest in texture mapping (9,10), medical imaging (11), and biometrics (12). However, the geometric viewpoint encounters obstacles in data analysis. In 2000, Tenenbaum et al. (13) and Roweis and Saul (14) proposed the geometric algorithms (Isomap and LLE, respectively) for data analysis. In their frameworks, a common assumption was dropped that data points can be regarded as sampled ones from some 1

underlying data manifold, providing a new viewpoint to data analysis. During the past six years development, fruitful results (15,16) have been achieved. However, critical issues arise as well. First, many researchers still hold the suspicious attitude to the assumption. Second, more attention has been paid to the development of methods themselves; whereas concerns of structures of underlying data manifolds are to a large extent overlooked. The extensive applications and the far-reaching development of the meaningful geometric idea have been narrowed by these two factors. Abstract data manifolds do exist. To enhance their viewpoint, we here exhibit, based on the structural inference from a set of images, the interesting structure of a data manifold. On one hand, the underlying manifold formed by the data set in Fig. 1 A is an open curve (17) since the scaling operation enables one degree of freedom, which can be verified by virtue of two-dimensional representation of it shown in Fig. 1 C1. On the other hand, the data set in Fig. 1 B forms the underlying manifold of a nonnegative spherical sheet (18) because the variation of moduli of each image keeps stable. The spherical sheet is visualized in Fig. 1 C2. By shifting A1, A3, and A5, we obtain three such spherical sheets whose centers are connected by an underlying curve formed in Fig. 1 A. Thus we derive an underlying data manifold whose schematic shape is illustrated in Fig. 1 C3. Note that the interesting manifold can be viewed as the moderate deformation and rotation of the three-sheet Riemann surface (19). Investigating the behavior of the cell from images, we now know that the cell always behaves near an underlying Riemann surface. Besides Riemann surface raised here, clues have been found that Klein bottle plays its role in understanding topographic maps in the cerebral cortex (20) and the topology of Gabor filters (21). These geometric objects are increasingly helpful for researchers to discover what is hidden behind data. A

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Fig. 1. Illustration of a data manifold approximate to Riemann surface. The data set is artificially generated by scaling and shifting the micrograph of a cell in a fixed 116-by-116 gray background image with noise. A) Representatives of scaling the micrograph of the cell. By scaling the micrograph, we obtain thirty-two images of the cell of different sizes in order to simulate a continuous transition from A1 to A5. B) Representatives of shifting the micrograph of the cell in A3. By left-right and up-down shifting, the micrograph of the cell is shifted in the background by two-pix interval each time. Nine hundred of images are generated for this operation. Note that B3 is the same to A3. Such shifting operation is performed on A1 and A5 as well. C1) Two-dimensional representations of images in A. LTSA (24) is utilized to find the 2D embeddings. Fifteen nearest neighbors are searched for each image. C2) Two-dimensional visualization of images in B. LLE is facilitated to derive the visualization. Seven nearest neighbors are searched. C3) Schematic shape of the data manifold formed by images in A and B and images generated by shifting A1 and A5. The manifold is an analogue of Riemann surface. For today’s science, it is still hard for scientists to accurately and timely predict natural disasters that devoured and are devouring belongings and lives of human beings, such as tsunamis and earthquakes, despite a wealth of data available. And it is beneficial to develop more effective approaches for scientists to reveal gene structures from huge volumes of expressions. These real-life urgencies are compelling scientists to create novel ideas and methods to understand scientific data better. Thinking geometrically promises to stimulating across scientific fields. Maybe it’s time for researchers to recognize Plato’s geometric thinking. References and Notes 1. M.A. Nielsen, M.R. Dowling, M. Gu, A.C. Doherty, Science 311, 1133 (2006). 2. M.D. Plumbley, International Conference on ICA 1245 (2004). 3. M.D. Plumbley, Neurocomputing 67, 161 (2005). 4. A. Edelman et al., SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 20, 303 (1998). 5. D.L. Zhao, C.Q. Liu, Y.H. Zhang, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3338, 400 (2004). 6. Y. Nishimori, S. Akaho, M.D. Plumbley, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3889, 295 (2006). 7. Y. Boykov, V. Kolmogorov, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 1, 26 3

(2003). 8. B. Appleton, H. Talbot, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 28, 106 (2006). 9. S. Haker et al., Visualization and Computer Graphics 6, 181 (2000). 10. G. Elber, Computer Graphics and Applications 25, 66 (2005). 11. X.F. Gu, Medical Imaging 23, 949 (2004). 12. Y.L. Wang, M.C. Chiang, P.M. Thompson, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 1, 17 (2005). 13. J.B. Tenenbaum, V.D. Silva, J.C. Langford, Science 290, 2319 (2000). 14. S.T. Roweis, L.K. Saul, Science 290, 2323 (2000). 15. http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lawhiu/manifold/ 16. http://www.iipl.fudan.edu.cn/%7Ezhangjp/literatures/MLF/INDEX.HTM 17. Seung and Lee illustrated one-dimensional data manifold formed by rotated faces in (22). 18. Saul and Roweis presented a similar paradigm of shifting a face in (23). 19. http://www.miqel.com/fractals_math_patterns/visual-math-minimal-surfaces.html 20. N.V. Swindale, Current Biology 6, 776 (1996). 21. A. Brun et al., Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 920 (2005). 22. H.S. Seung, D.D. Lee, Science 290, 2268 (2000). 23. L.K. Saul, S.T. Roweis, Machine Learning Research 4, 119 (2003). 24. Z.Y. Zhang, H.Y. Zha, SIAM J. Sci. Comp. 26, 313 (2004).

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