Motion-based mesh segmentation using augmented silhouettes

  • Authors:
  • Stefano Marras;Michael M. Bronstein;Kai Hormann;Riccardo Scateni;Roberto Scopigno

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cagliari, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, via Ospedale 72, Cagliari 09045, Italy and ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy;Universití della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;Universití della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland;University of Cagliari, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, via Ospedale 72, Cagliari 09045, Italy;ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Graphical Models
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Motion-based segmentation, the problem of detecting rigid parts of an articulated three-dimensional shape, is an open challenge that has several applications in mesh animation, compression, and interpolation. We present a novel approach that uses the visual perception of the shape and its motion to distinguish the rigid from the deformable parts of the object. Using two-dimensional projections of the different shape poses with respect to a number of different view points, we derive a set of one-dimensional curves, which form a superset of the mesh silhouettes. Analysing these augmented silhouettes, we identify the vertices of the mesh that correspond to the deformable parts, and a subsequent clustering approach, which is based on the diffusion distance, yields a motion-based segmentation of the shape.