Title
Surface curvature estimation from the signed distance field
Abstract
We propose a method of computing surface curvature properties from the signed distance field (SDF) samples in the 3D space. The SDF representation contains information of the surface normal at the closest point on the surface from the sampling point. The variance of these information from different sampling points within the neighborhood reflects the curvature information. Because this sampling is done in the 3D space, we do not directly referees to the parametric surface coordinates or polygon structures. The computation is stable because it requires only linear algebraic operations. It is possible to extract multiple scale curvatures by changing sampling interval. The proposed method was applied on real data, and result of multiscale curvature extraction is presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/IM.2003.1240270
3DIM
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational geometry,curve fitting,image reconstruction,image sampling,surface fitting,3D space,image sampling,linear algebraic operation,multiscale curvature extraction,polygon structure,sampling interval,signed distance field,surface curvature estimation,surface normal
Parametric surface,Computer vision,Polygon,Curvature,Curve fitting,Signed distance function,Computational geometry,Sampling (statistics),Artificial intelligence,Normal,Mathematics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1991-1
7
0.64
References 
Authors
13
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takeshi Masuda1453.42