LiteSeer: Shape Segmentation and Representation

Image Segmentation

• Radial Basis Function-based Image Segmentation using a Receptive Field
• Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation
• Surface Segmentation and Modeling of 3-D Polygonal Objects from Stereoscopic Image Pairs

Mesh Segmentation

Bottom-Up

• A Novel Method for 3D Surface Mesh Segmentation
• Hierarchical Face Clustering on Polygonal Surfaces
• Perception-based 3D Triangle Mesh Segmentation using Fast Marching Watersheds

Top-Down

• Hierarchical Mesh Decomposition using Fuzzy Clustering and Cuts
• An Efficient k-Means Clustering Algorithm: Analysis and Implementation
• Partitioning 3D Surface Meshes Using Watershed Segmentation

Topological

• Shape Segmentation and Matching with Flow Discretization

Physics-Based

• 3D Part Segmentation Using Simulated Electrical Charge Distributions

Boundary-Based

• Extraction of Feature Lines on Triangulated Surfaces using Morphological Operators

Error Metric-Based

• Variational Shape Approximation

Semi-Automatic

• Dynamic Deformable Models for 3D MRI Heart Segmentation

Decomposition using Surface Patches

• 3-D Surface Segmentation of Free-Form Objects using Implicit Algebraic Surfaces

Shape Representation

Skeletons

• Computing and Simplifying 2D and 3D Continuous Skeletons
• Accurate Computation of the Medial Axis of a Polyhedron
• The Hamilton-Jacobi Skeleton
• Skeleton-Space: a Multiscale Shape Description Combining Region and Boundary Information
• Recognition of Shapes by Editing Shock Graphs

Curvature

• COSMOS--A Representation Scheme for 3D Free-Form Objects
• Shape Representation and Recognition from Multiscale Curvature
• Estimating the Tensor of Curvature of a Surface from a Polyhedral Approximation

Topological

• Contour Trees and Small Seed Sets for Isosurface Traversal
• Topology Matching for Fully Automatic Similarity Estimation of 3D Shapes
• The Flow Complex: A Data Structure for Geometric Modeling
• Computing the Weighted Flow Complex