Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunction Metrics and Geodesic Shape Distance Features for Shape Matching in Synthetic Aperture Sonar

Abstract

Assuming that a 1D curve is a representation of a manifold embedded in a 2D-space, the metrics of the eigenfunctions of the weighted graph-Laplacian and diffusion operator of that manifold are then a representation of the shape of that manifold with invariance to rotation, scale, and translation. In this work, we employ spectral metrics of the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator compared with geodesic shape distance features for shape analysis of closed curves extracted from 2-D synthetic aperture sonar imagery. Results demonstrate that the spectral eigenfunction diffusion metric and the geodesic distance allow for good class separation over multiple noisy target shapes with a computational advantage to the eigenfunction method.

Cite

Text

Isaacs. "Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunction Metrics and Geodesic Shape Distance Features for Shape Matching in Synthetic Aperture Sonar." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2011. doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981743

Markdown

[Isaacs. "Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunction Metrics and Geodesic Shape Distance Features for Shape Matching in Synthetic Aperture Sonar." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2011.](https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2011/isaacs2011cvprw-laplacebeltrami/) doi:10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981743

BibTeX

@inproceedings{isaacs2011cvprw-laplacebeltrami,
  title     = {{Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunction Metrics and Geodesic Shape Distance Features for Shape Matching in Synthetic Aperture Sonar}},
  author    = {Isaacs, Jason C.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
  year      = {2011},
  pages     = {14-20},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPRW.2011.5981743},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvprw/2011/isaacs2011cvprw-laplacebeltrami/}
}