Title
Group-wise shape correspondence of variable and complex objects.
Abstract
We present a group-wise shape correspondence method for analyzing variable and complex objects in a population study. The proposed method begins with the standard spherical harmonics (SPHARM) point distribution models (PDM) with their spherical mappings. In case of complex and variable objects, the equal area spherical mapping based SPHARM correspondence is imperfect. For such objects, we present here a novel group-wise correspondence. As an example dataset, we use 12 second mandibular molars representing 6 living or fossil euarchontan species. To improve initial correspondence of the SPHARM-PDM representation, we first apply a rigid transformation on each subject using five well-known landmarks (molar cusps). We further enhance the correspondence by optimizing landmarks (local) and multidimensional geometric property (global) over each subject with spherical harmonic representation. The resulting average shape model better captures sharp landmark representation in quantitative evaluation as well as a nice separation of different species compared with that of the SPHARM-PDM method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/12.2293273
Proceedings of SPIE
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
10574
0277-786X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ilwoo Lyu14211.53
Jonathan Perdomo200.34
Gabriel S. Yapuncich300.34
Beatriz Paniagua43414.25
Doug M. Boyer500.34
Martin Styner61349116.30