Parameter-Free and Multigrid Convergent Digital Curvature Estimators

Abstract

In many geometry processing applications, the estimation of differential geometric quantities such as curvature or normal vector field is an essential step. Focusing on multigrid convergent estimators, most of them require a user specified parameter to define the scale at which the analysis is performed (size of a convolution kernel, size of local patches for polynomial fitting, etc). In a previous work, we have proposed a new class of estimators on digital shape boundaries based on Integral Invariants. In this paper, we propose new variants of these estimators which are parameter-free and ensure multigrid convergence in 2D. As far as we know, these are the first parameter-free multigrid convergent curvature estimators.

Publication
Proc. Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI'2014), Sienna, Italy, pp 162-175, volume 8668 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
Jacques-Olivier Lachaud
Jacques-Olivier Lachaud
Professor of Computer Science

My research interests include digital geometry, geometry processing, image analysis, variational models and discrete calculus.