Meshed surfaces are ubiquitous in digital geometry processing and computer graphics. The set of attributes associated with each vertex such as the vertex locations, curvature, temperature, pressure or saliency, can be...Meshed surfaces are ubiquitous in digital geometry processing and computer graphics. The set of attributes associated with each vertex such as the vertex locations, curvature, temperature, pressure or saliency, can be recognized as data living on mani- fold surfaces. So interpolation and approximation for these data are of general interest. This paper presents two approaches for mani- fold data interpolation and approximation through the properties of Laplace-Beltrami operator （Laplace operator defined on a mani- fold surface）. The first one is to use Laplace operator minimizing the membrane energy of a scalar function defined on a manifold. The second one is to use bi-Laplace operator minimizing the thin plate energy of a scalar function defined on a manifold. These two approaches can process data living on high genus meshed surfaces. The approach based on Laplace operator is more suitable for manifold data approximation and can be applied manifold data smoothing, while the one based on bi-Laplace operator is more suit- able for manifold data interpolation and can be applied image extremal envelope computation. All the application examples demon- strate that our procedures are robust and efficient.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61202261,No.61173102)NSFC Guangdong Joint Fund(No.U0935004)Opening Foundation of Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education of China(No.93K172012K02)
文摘Meshed surfaces are ubiquitous in digital geometry processing and computer graphics. The set of attributes associated with each vertex such as the vertex locations, curvature, temperature, pressure or saliency, can be recognized as data living on mani- fold surfaces. So interpolation and approximation for these data are of general interest. This paper presents two approaches for mani- fold data interpolation and approximation through the properties of Laplace-Beltrami operator （Laplace operator defined on a mani- fold surface）. The first one is to use Laplace operator minimizing the membrane energy of a scalar function defined on a manifold. The second one is to use bi-Laplace operator minimizing the thin plate energy of a scalar function defined on a manifold. These two approaches can process data living on high genus meshed surfaces. The approach based on Laplace operator is more suitable for manifold data approximation and can be applied manifold data smoothing, while the one based on bi-Laplace operator is more suit- able for manifold data interpolation and can be applied image extremal envelope computation. All the application examples demon- strate that our procedures are robust and efficient.
