Ridge-valley lines on meshes via implicit surface fitting
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- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Vol. 23 (3) , 609-612
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1015706.1015768
Abstract
We propose a simple and effective method for detecting view-and scale-independent ridge-valley lines defined via first- and second-order curvature derivatives on shapes approximated by dense triangle meshes. A high-quality estimation of high-order surface derivatives is achieved by combining multi-level implicit surface fitting and finite difference approximations. We demonstrate that the ridges and valleys are geometrically and perceptually salient surface features, and, therefore, can be potentially used for shape recognition, coding, and quality evaluation purposes.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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