LSMAT Least Squares Medial Axis Transform
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2019
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© 2019 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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The medial axis transform has applications in numerous fields including visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision. Unfortunately, traditional medial axis transformations are usually brittle in the presence of outliers, perturbations and/or noise along the boundary of objects. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a new formulation of the medial axis transform which is naturally robust in the presence of these artefacts. Unlike previous work which has approached the medial axis from a computational geometry angle, we consider it from a numerical optimization perspective. In this work, we follow the definition of the medial axis transform as ‘the set of maximally inscribed spheres’. We show how this definition can be formulated as a least squares relaxation where the transform is obtained by minimizing a continuous optimization problem. The proposed approach is inherently parallelizable by performing independent optimization of each sphere using Gauss–Newton, and its least‐squares form allows it to be significantly more robust compared to traditional computational geometry approaches. Extensive experiments on 2D and 3D objects demonstrate that our method provides superior results to the state of the art on both synthetic and real‐data.The medial axis transform has applications in numerous fields including visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision. Unfortunately, traditional medial axis transformations are usually brittle in the presence of outliers, perturbations and/or noise along the boundary of objects. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a new formulation of the medial axis transform which is naturally robust in the presence of these artefacts. Unlike previous work which has approached the medial axis from a computational geometry angle, we consider it from a numerical optimization perspective. In this work, we follow the definition of the medial axis transform as ‘the set of maximally inscribed spheres’.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.13599,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{LSMAT Least Squares Medial Axis Transform}},
author = {Rebain, Daniel and Angles, Baptiste and Valentin, Julien and Vining, Nicholas and Peethambaran, Jiju and Izadi, Shahram and Tagliasacchi, Andrea},
year = {2019},
publisher = {© 2019 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltd},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.13599}
}