# Automatic filters for the detection of coherent structure in spatiotemporal systems.

@article{Shalizi2006AutomaticFF,
title={Automatic filters for the detection of coherent structure in spatiotemporal systems.},
author={Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and Robert Haslinger and Jean-Baptiste Rouquier and Kristina Lisa Klinkner and Cristopher Moore},
journal={Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics},
year={2006},
volume={73 3 Pt 2},
pages={
036104
}
}
• Published 29 July 2005
• Computer Science
• Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
Most current methods for identifying coherent structures in spatially extended systems rely on prior information about the form which those structures take. Here we present two approaches to automatically filter the changing configurations of spatial dynamical systems and extract coherent structures. One, local sensitivity filtering, is a modification of the local Lyapunov exponent approach suitable to cellular automata and other discrete spatial systems. The other, local statistical complexity…

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