TY - CONF A1 - Burgeth, Bernhard A1 - Kleefeld, Andreas A1 - Zhang, Eugene A1 - Zhang, Yue A2 - Baudrier, Étienne A2 - Naegel, Benoît A2 - Krähenbühl, Adrien A2 - Tajine, Mohamed T1 - Towards Topological Analysis of Non-symmetric Tensor Fields via Complexification T2 - Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology N2 - Fields of asymmetric tensors play an important role in many applications such as medical imaging (diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging), physics, and civil engineering (for example Cauchy-Green-deformation tensor, strain tensor with local rotations, etc.). However, such asymmetric tensors are usually symmetrized and then further processed. Using this procedure results in a loss of information. A new method for the processing of asymmetric tensor fields is proposed restricting our attention to tensors of second-order given by a 2x2 array or matrix with real entries. This is achieved by a transformation resulting in Hermitian matrices that have an eigendecomposition similar to symmetric matrices. With this new idea numerical results for real-world data arising from a deformation of an object by external forces are given. It is shown that the asymmetric part indeed contains valuable information. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11483 SN - 978-3-031-19897-7 N1 - Second International Joint Conference, DGMM 2022, Strasbourg, France, October 24–27, 2022 N1 - Corresponding author: Andreas Kleefeld SP - 48 EP - 59 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -