SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper a novel clustering algorithm is proposed, namely Variational Multilevel Mesh Clustering (VMLC). The algorithm incorporates the advantages of both hierarchical and va...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper we present a new method for alignment of 3D models. This approach is based on symmetry properties, and uses the fact that the principal components analysis (PCA) hav...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract In this paper, we study the problem of approximate topological matching for quadrilateral meshes, that is, the problem of finding as large a set as possible of matching p...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
A local shape feature has an advantage in dealing with deformable or articulated 3D models. We evaluate the performance of our local, 2D visual features and their integration meth...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
The skeletal structures of solid objects play an important role in medical and industrial applications. Given a volumetrically sampled solid object, our method extracts a nice-loo...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
We present a new method for robustly decomposing a 3D voxel shape into disjoint segments using the medial surface, also called surface skeleton. The boundaries of the simplified ...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper, we introduce a parallel numerical scheme, the lattice Boltzmann method, to shape modeling applications. The motivation of using this originally-designed fluid dyna...
SMI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
We address the problem of bandwidth selection in MLS surfaces. While the problem has received relatively little attention in the literature, we show that appropriate selection pla...