Extracting Principal Curvature Ridges from B-Spline Surfaces with Deficient Smoothness

  • Authors:
  • Suraj Musuvathy;Elaine Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, University of Utah,;School of Computing, University of Utah,

  • Venue:
  • ISVC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Principal curvature ridges identify characteristic feature curves on a surface that can be used for surface registration, quality control, visualization and various other shape interrogation applications across disciplines such as medical imaging, computer vision, computer-aided design and engineering and geology. Current techniques for accurate extraction of ridges from B-Spline surfaces require C n , n *** 3 smoothness. In practice, many fitting techniques and modeling systems yield surface representations that may be only C 2, C 1 or C 0 on the knot lines. In this paper, we generalize a robust tracing algorithm to address the problem of extracting ridges from surfaces with lower orders of smoothness to broaden its applicability to a much larger set of surfaces.