Extracting skeletal curves from 3D scattered data

Anne Verroust (1) , Francis Lazarus (2)

1 IMEDIA - Image and multimedia indexing, browsing and retrieval
2 SIC - SIGNAL-IMAGE-COMMUNICATION

We introduce a method for extracting skeletal curves from an unorganized collectionof scattered data points lying on a surface. These curves may have a treelike structureto capture branching shapes such as blood vessels. The skeletal curves can be used forvarious applications ranging from surface reconstruction to object recognition.

Mots clés: Visualization – Skeletal curves – Cylindrical decomposition – Generalized cylinders – Reconstruction

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]

Anne Verroust, Francis Lazarus. Extracting skeletal curves from 3D scattered data. The Visual Computer, 2000, 16 (1), pp.11. ⟨10.1109/SMA.1999.749340⟩. ⟨hal-01224926⟩