Self-organizing deformable model: a new method for fitting mesh model to given object surface

  • Authors:
  • Ken’ichi Morooka;Hiroshi Nagahashi

  • Affiliations:
  • Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan;Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ISVC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Visual Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a new method for projecting a mesh model of a source object onto a surface of an arbitrary target object. A deformable model, called Self-organizing Deformable Model(SDM), is deformed so that the shape of the model is fitted to the target object. We introduce an idea of combining a competitive learning and an energy minimization into the SDM deformation. Our method is a powerful tool in the areas of computer vision and computer graphics. For example, it enables to map mesh models onto various kinds of target surfaces like other methods for a surface parameterization, which have focused on specified target surface. Also the SDM can reconstruct shapes of target objects like general deformable models.