Hierarchical scattered data filtering for multilevel interpolation schemes

  • Authors:
  • Armin Iske

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Univ. München, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Multilevel scattered data interpolation requires decomposing the given data into a hierarchy of nested subsets. This paper concerns the efficient construction of such hierarchies. To this end, a recursive filter scheme for scattered data is proposed which generates hierarchies of locally optimal nested subsets. The scheme is a composition of greedy thinning, a recursive point removal strategy, and exchange, a local optimization procedure. The utility of the filter scheme for multilevel interpolation using radial basis functions is shown by numerical examples.