Shape spaces

Shape spaces are spaces of $k$ points in $ℝ^n$ up to simultaneous action of a group on all points. The most commonly encountered are Kendall's pre-shape and shape spaces. In the case of the Kendall's pre-shape spaces the action is translation and scaling. In the case of the Kendall's shape spaces the action is translation, scaling and rotation.

using Manifolds, PlotsM = KendallsShapeSpace(2, 3)# two random point on the shape spacep = [    0.4385117672460505 -0.6877826444042382 0.24927087715818771    -0.3830259932279294 0.35347460720654283 0.029551386021386548]q = [    -0.42693314765896473 -0.3268567431952937 0.7537898908542584    0.3054740561061169 -0.18962848284149897 -0.11584557326461796]# let's plot them as triples of points on a planefig = scatter(p[1,:], p[2,:], label="p", aspect_ratio=:equal)scatter!(fig, q[1,:], q[2,:], label="q")
Example block output

A more extensive usage example is available in the hand gesture analysis tutorial.

Manifolds.KendallsPreShapeSpace — Type
KendallsPreShapeSpace{T} <: AbstractSphere{ℝ}

Kendall's pre-shape space of $k$ landmarks in $ℝ^n$ represented by n×k matrices. In each row the sum of elements of a matrix is equal to 0. The Frobenius norm of the matrix is equal to 1 [Ken84][Ken89].

The space can be interpreted as tuples of $k$ points in $ℝ^n$ up to simultaneous translation and scaling of all points, so this can be thought of as a quotient manifold.

Constructor

KendallsPreShapeSpace(n::Int, k::Int; parameter::Symbol=:type)

See also

KendallsShapeSpace, esp. for the references

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Manifolds.KendallsShapeSpace — Type
KendallsShapeSpace{T} <: AbstractDecoratorManifold{ℝ}

Kendall's shape space, defined as quotient of a KendallsPreShapeSpace (represented by n×k matrices) modulo column wise application of a single rotation.

The space can be interpreted as tuples of $k$ points in $ℝ^n$ up to simultaneous translation and scaling and rotation of all points [Ken84][Ken89].

Constructor

KendallsShapeSpace(n::Int, k::Int; parameter::Symbol=:type)

References

[Ken84], [Ken89]

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Provided functions

Manifolds.helmert_submatrix — Method
helmert_submatrix(::Type{T}, k::Int)

Return the (k-1)×k matrix below the first row of the Helmert matrix of order k, whose j-th row is $(h_j, …, h_j, -jh_j, 0, …, 0)$ with $h_j = (j(j+1))^{-1/2}$. With the first row $(1/\sqrt{k}, …, 1/\sqrt{k})$ the Helmert matrix is orthogonal, see Eq. (8.87) in [Gen17, Section 8.8.1].

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ManifoldsBase.project — Method
project(M::KendallsPreShapeSpace, p)

Project point p from the embedding to KendallsPreShapeSpace by selecting the right element from the orthogonal section representing the quotient manifold M. See Section 3.7 of [SK16] for details.

The method computes the mean of the landmarks and moves them to make their mean zero; afterwards the Frobenius norm of the landmarks (as a matrix) is normalised to fix the scaling.

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Base.isapprox — Method
isapprox(M::KendallsShapeSpace, p, X, Y; kwargs...)

Test whether two tangent vectors X, Y at p on the KendallsShapeSpace M are (approximately) the same, that is whether $\lVert X - Y \rVert_p \approx 0$ with the classical isapprox. The kwargs... are passed on to this; atol defaults to sqrt(max_eps(X, Y)).

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Base.isapprox — Method
isapprox(M::KendallsShapeSpace, p, q; kwargs...)

Test whether two points p, q on the KendallsShapeSpace M are (approximately) the same. Since this is a quotient manifold, the test is performed by checking their distance if they are not equal, that is $d_{\mathcal M}(p,q) \approx 0$ with the classical isapprox. The kwargs... are passed on to this; atol defaults to sqrt(max_eps(p, q)).

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Base.rand — Method
rand(::KendallsShapeSpace; vector_at=nothing)

When vector_at is nothing, return a random point x on the KendallsShapeSpace manifold M by generating a random point in the embedding.

When vector_at is not nothing, return a random vector from the tangent space with mean zero and standard deviation σ.

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Literature

[Gen17]
J. E. Gentle. Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations and Applications in Statistics. 2 Edition, Springer Texts in Statistics (Springer Cham, 2017).
[GMTP21]
N. Guigui, E. Maignant, A. Trouvé and X. Pennec. Parallel Transport on Kendall Shape Spaces. In: Geometric Science of Information (SPringer Cham, 2021); pp. 103–110.
[Ken84]
D. G. Kendall. Shape Manifolds, Procrustean Metrics, and Complex Projective Spaces. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 16, 81–121 (1984).
[Ken89]
D. G. Kendall. A Survey of the Statistical Theory of Shape. Statistical Science 4, 87–99 (1989).
[SK16]
A. Srivastava and E. P. Klassen. Functional and Shape Data Analysis (Springer New York, 2016).