Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation of Line Segments and Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Lin Lu;Bruno Lévy;Wenping Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Hong-Kong University and Shandong University; INRIA Nancy Grand-Est and LORIA;§ Hong-Kong University

  • Venue:
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) of points has many applications in geometry processing, including re-meshing and segmentation, to name but a few. In this paper, we generalize the CVT concept to graphs via a variational characterization. Given a graph and a 3D polygonal surface, our method optimizes the placement of the vertices of the graph in such a way that the graph segments best approximate the shape of the surface. We formulate the computation of CVT for graphs as a continuous variational problem, and present a simple, approximate method for solving this problem. Our method is robust in the sense that it is independent of degeneracies in the input mesh, such as skinny triangles, T-junctions, small gaps or multiple connected components. We present some applications, to skeleton fitting and to shape segmentation. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.