Modeling Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology with Dynamic Particles

Abstract

A new approach to surface modeling and reconstruction is developed which overcomes some important limitations of existing surface representations methods. The approach features two components. The first is a dynamic self-organizing oriented particle system which discovers topological and geometric surface structure implicit in visual data. The oriented particles evolve according to Newtonian mechanics and interact through long-range attraction forces, short-range repulsion forces, and coplanarity, conormality, and cocircularity forces. The second component is an efficient triangulation scheme that connects the particles into a continuous global surface model that is consistent with the inferred structure. A flexible surface reconstruction algorithm is developed that can compute complete, detailed, viewpoint-invariant geometric surface descriptions of objects with arbitrary topology. The algorithms are applied to 3-D medical image segmentation and to surface reconstruction from object silhouettes.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Cite

Text

Szeliski et al. "Modeling Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology with Dynamic Particles." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1993. doi:10.1109/CVPR.1993.340975

Markdown

[Szeliski et al. "Modeling Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology with Dynamic Particles." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1993.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1993/szeliski1993cvpr-modeling/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.1993.340975

BibTeX

@inproceedings{szeliski1993cvpr-modeling,
  title     = {{Modeling Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology with Dynamic Particles}},
  author    = {Szeliski, Richard and Tonnesen, David and Terzopoulos, Demetri},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {1993},
  pages     = {82-87},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.1993.340975},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1993/szeliski1993cvpr-modeling/}
}