Ridges and ravines on a surface and segmentation of range images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3168, Issue , 1997, Pages 106-114

  Belyaev, Alexander G ^a   Bogaevski, Ilia A ^b   Kunii, Tosiyasu L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^b Nordon Co   (Russian Federation)

^c Laboratory of Digital Art and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive smoothing; Caustic singularities; Distance function singularities; Ravines; Ridges; Segmentation; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; CAUSTIC SINGULARITIES; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; MINIMAL PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; RANGE DATA; RANGE IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RANGE IMAGES; SURFACE NORMALS;

EID: 0003093518     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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