Graph-based representations of point clouds

  • Authors:
  • Mattia Natali;Silvia Biasotti;Giuseppe Patanè;Bianca Falcidieno

  • Affiliations:
  • Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy;Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via De Marini 6, 16149 Genova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Graphical Models
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper introduces a skeletal representation, called Point Cloud Graph, that generalizes the definition of the Reeb graph to arbitrary point clouds sampled from m-dimensional manifolds embedded in the d-dimensional space. The proposed algorithm is easy to implement and the graph representation yields to an effective abstraction of the data. Finally, we present experimental results on point-sampled surfaces and volumetric data that show the robustness of the Point Cloud Graph to non-uniform point distributions and its usefulness for shape comparison.