A minimal contouring approach to the computation of the reeb graph

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 583-595

  Patané, Giuseppe ^a   Spagnuolo, Michela ^a   Falcidieno, Bianca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational topology; Geometric algorithms; Hierarchical segmentations; Morse theory; Reeb graph; Shape analysis and abstraction; Topological graph

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; COSTS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL TOPOLOGY; GEOMETRIC ALGORITHM; HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION; MORSE THE-ORY; REEB GRAPH; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGICAL GRAPHS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 67649365887     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.22     Document Type: Article

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