Estimating Gaussian Curvatures from 3D Meshes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5007, Issue , 2003, Pages 270-280

  Peng, Jingliang ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Jay Kuo, C C ^a   Zhou, Manli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

3D feature extraction; 3D mesh; 3D surface segmentation; Differential geometry; Gaussian curvature

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

GAUSSIAN CURVATURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0242492280     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.473938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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