Construction of iso-contours, bisectors, and Voronoi diagrams on triangulated surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1502-1517

  Liu, Yong Jin ^a   Chen, Zhanqing ^b   Tang, Kai ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

exact geodesic metrics; geometric transformations; point patterns; Shape; triangular meshes

Indexed keywords

EXACT GEODESIC METRICS; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; POINT PATTERNS; SHAPE; TRIANGULAR MESHES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; GEODESY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 79959526893     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.221     Document Type: Article

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