DocumentCode :
54616
Title :
Semi-Continuity of Skeletons in Two-Manifold and Discrete Voronoi Approximation
Author :
Liu, Yong-Jin
Author_Institution :
Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Volume :
37
Issue :
9
fYear :
2015
fDate :
Sept. 1 2015
Firstpage :
1938
Lastpage :
1944
Abstract :
The skeleton of a 2D shape is an important geometric structure in pattern analysis and computer vision. In this paper we study the skeleton of a 2D shape in a two-manifold mathcal {M} , based on a geodesic metric. We present a formal definition of the skeleton S(\\Omega ) for a shape \\Omega in mathcal {M} and show several properties that make S(\\Omega ) distinct from its Euclidean counterpart in mathbb {R}^2 . We further prove that for a shape sequence \\lbrace \\Omega _i\\rbrace that converge to a shape \\Omega in mathcal {M} , the mapping \\Omega \\righta- row \\overline {S}(\\Omega ) is lower semi-continuous. A direct application of this result is that we can use a set P of sample points to approximate the boundary of a 2D shape \\Omega in mathcal {M} , and the Voronoi diagram of P inside \\Omega \\subset mathcal {M} gives a good approximation to the skeleton S(\\Omega ) . Examples of skeleton computation in topography and brain morphometry are illu
Keywords :
Approximation methods; Computer vision; Manifolds; Measurement; Pattern analysis; Shape; Skeleton; 2-manifold; 2D shape sequence; Voronoi skeleton; geodesic; two-manifold;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0162-8828
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TPAMI.2015.2430342
Filename :
7102776
Link To Document :
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