Title
Sampled medial loci and boundary differential geometry
Abstract
We introduce a novel algorithm to compute a dense sample of points on the medial locus of a polyhedral object, with a guarantee that each medial point is within a specified tolerance ¿ from the medial surface. Motivated by Damon's work on the relationship between the differential geometry of the smooth boundary of an object and its medial surface, we then develop a computational method by which boundary differential geometry can be recovered directly from this dense medial point cloud. Experimental results on models of varying complexity demonstrate the validity of the approach, with principal curvature values that are consistent with those provided by an alternative method that works directly on the boundary. As such, we demonstrate the richness of a dense medial point cloud as a shape descriptor for 3D data processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457508
Computer Vision Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
sampled medial loci,differential geometry,principal curvature value,shape descriptor,computational geometry,polyhedral object,boundary differential geometry,3d data processing,dense medial point cloud,euclidean distance,shape,geometry,meteorology,computational modeling
Medial surface,Data processing,Computational geometry,Euclidean distance,Medial axis,Principal curvature,Differential geometry,Geometry,Point cloud,Mathematics
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISBN
2009
1
978-1-4244-4441-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.49
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Svetlana Stolpner1513.78
Sue Whitesides21449197.63
Kaleem Siddiqi33259242.07