Felix Rydell

I am a PhD in Mathematics and AI. I am currently an AI researcher at FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency. 

I did my PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as part of the WASP - Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program. My thesis studies Computer Vision using Algebraic Geometry. 

Research Interests

AI from a defence perspective

Hobbies

Current Position

AI researcher at FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency

Applied Algebra

Number Theory of Quadratic Forms

PhD

PhD in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Popular Science Research Overview - Coming Soon

AI


Applied Algebra

AGAVE Reading Group - Active from May 2022 to June 2024

Myself, Elima Shehu and Angélica Torres organized this reading group in algebraic vision. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/agave-mission/hem.

THESIS

Algerbraic Advances in Multiview Geometry

Preprints

Algebraic Vision

with co-authors

with Isak Sundelius

Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03063

with Timothy Duff

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00648

with Erin Connelly

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00495 

single-authored

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10262                                         

Metric Algebraic Geometry

single-authored

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00475         

Algebraic Geometry 

with Kathlén Kohn, Ragni Piene, Kristian Ranestad, Boris Shapiro, Rainer Sinn,  Miruna-Stefana Sorea and Simon Telen.

Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11747                                                                       

Accepted and Published Articles

Algebraic Vision

with Viktor Larsson and Angélica Torres. Accepted for publication in CVPR 2024.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07114  

with Paul Breiding, Timothy Duff, Lukas Gustafsson and Elima Shehu. Accepted for publication in Communications in Algebra.

Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02066    

with Martin Bråtelund. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. 2023. p. 3328-3336. 

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10658

with Elima Shehu and Angélica Torres.  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. 2023. p. 3748-3757.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13593     

with Paul Breiding, Elima Shehu and Angélica Torres. SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, 2023, 7.2: 470-504. 

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01694

Algebraic Statistics

with Stefan Dye,  Kathlén Kohn and Rainer Sinn.  Part of the LSSM Collaborative Project. Le Mathematiche, Special Issue on Linear Spaces of Symmetric Matrices, pages 399-414.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08989 

Number Theory

with Erik Nilsson and Julie Rowlett.  Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 2023, 60.1: 39-83.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09457                                                             

A Selection of Illustrations

For surfaces in 3-space, skew-tubes are unions of circles such that the normal lines along these circles intersect in a point. The union of all intersection points forms a curve. Each point of this curve has infinitely many ED-critical points on the surface. To the left is a skew-tube around a twisted cubic. This surface is given by a degree-10 polynomial of 123 terms.

Two back-projected cubic cones are shown, through the two green centers. The twisted cubic defining the cones is illustrated in thick orange. The surfaces also intersect in a degree-6 curve drawn in thin orange. Indeed, since the surfaces are degree-3, the expected total degree of the intersection is 9.

Refracted rays (in blue and orange,) given the black radiant point A and the black circle C. The red curve is the complete caustic by refraction, and the green curves are the Caustic ovals, whose evolute is the red curve. The blue lines are correspond to the refraction constant n = 1/2 and the orange lines correspond to n = −1/2. 

This figure illustrates the Sampson approximation scheme for the purpose of fitting data to an algebraic variety. Here, our mathematical model is the ellipse C(x, y) = x^2+2y^2−4 = 0. 

We studied how to best reconstruct point and line such that incidence relations are preserved.  The left picture illustrates individual triangulation of the points and line, and the right picture illustrates a reconstruction algorithm which ensures that the reconstructed points lie on the reconstructed line. 

The main theorem of line multiview varieties is says that a line multiview variety is cut out by the condition that the back-projected planes meet in a line if and only if the centers are pairwise disjoint and no four centers are collinear.  The foundational idea for its proof uses basic theory of smooth quadrics and is illustrated in the image to the right. 

Graduate Student Meeting on Applied Algebra and Combinatorics, KTH April 2023

Myself, Xiangying Chen, Danai Deligeorgaki, Oskar Henriksson, Filip Jonsson Kling and Mariel Supina organized a conference for young researches on applied algebra and combinatorics, with plenary speakers Carlos Améndola and Kris Shaw.  

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/applied-alg-comb-2023/graduate-student-meeting-on-applied-algebra-and-combinatorics

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2022

2021

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Contact Information

felixry@kth.se