Toward high-quality gradient estimation on regular lattices

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 426-439

  Hossain, Zahid ^a   Alim, Usman R ^a   Moller, Torsten ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximation theory; body centered cubic lattice; box splines; normal reconstruction; orthogonal projection; Taylor series expansion

Indexed keywords

BODY-CENTERED CUBIC; BOX SPLINES; NORMAL RECONSTRUCTION; ORTHOGONAL PROJECTION; TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ESTIMATION; EXPANSION; HILBERT SPACES; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SPLINES; VOLUME RENDERING;

TAYLOR SERIES;

EID: 79951941931     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.37     Document Type: Article

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