Singularities of Principal Direction Fields From 3-D Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 309-317

  Sander, Peter T ^a   Zucker, Steven W ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D image analysis; Computational vision; differential geometry; direction field index; generic singularities; principal curvature and direction fields; umbilic points

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--GEOMETRY;

3-D IMAGE ANALYSIS; CURVATURE; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0026837913     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.120326     Document Type: Article

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