A genus oblivious approach to cross parameterization

  • Authors:
  • Janine Bennett;Valerio Pascucci;Kenneth Joy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Davis, USA;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA;University of California, Davis, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we present a robust approach to construct a map between two triangulated meshes, M and M^' of arbitrary and possibly unequal genus. We introduce a novel initial alignment scheme that allows the user to identify ''landmark tunnels'' and/or a ''constrained silhouette'' in addition to the standard landmark vertices. To describe the evolution of non-landmark tunnels we automatically derive a continuous deformation from M to M^' using a variational implicit approach. Overall, we achieve a cross parameterization scheme that is provably robust in the sense that it can map M to M^' without constraints on their relative genus. We provide a number of examples to demonstrate the practical effectiveness of our scheme between meshes of different genus and shape.