A survey on mesh segmentation techniques

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1539-1556

  Shamir, Ariel ^a  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mesh segmentation*Mesh partioning*Clustering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MESH GENERATION; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES; GEOMETRIC MODELLING; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARTIONING; PARTITIONING TECHNIQUES; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 42949092365     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01103.x     Document Type: Article

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