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Concept
Thin plate spline
Summary
Thin plate splines (TPS) are a spline-based technique for data interpolation and smoothing. They were introduced to geometric design by Duchon. They are an important special case of a polyharmonic spline. Robust Point Matching (RPM) is a common extension and shortly known as the TPS-RPM algorithm.
The name thin plate spline refers to a physical analogy involving the bending of a thin sheet of metal. Just as the metal has rigidity, the TPS fit resists bending also, implying a penalty involving the smoothness of the fitted surface. In the physical setting, the deflection is in the direction, orthogonal to the plane. In order to apply this idea to the problem of coordinate transformation, one interprets the lifting of the plate as a displacement of the or coordinates within the plane. In 2D cases, given a set of corresponding points, the TPS warp is described by parameters which include 6 global affine motion parameters and coefficients for correspondences of the control points. These parameters are computed by solving a linear system, in other words, TPS has a closed-form solution.
The TPS arises from consideration of the integral of the square of the second derivative—this forms its smoothness measure. In the case where is two dimensional, for interpolation, the TPS fits a mapping function between corresponding point-sets and that minimizes the following energy function:
The smoothing variant, correspondingly, uses a tuning parameter to control the rigidity of the deformation, balancing the aforementioned criterion with the measure of goodness of fit, thus minimizing:
For this variational problem, it can be shown that there exists a unique minimizer . The finite element discretization of this variational problem, the method of elastic maps, is used for data mining and nonlinear dimensionality reduction.
Radial basis function
The thin plate spline has a natural representation in terms of radial basis functions.
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