Growing Least Squares for the Analysis of Manifolds in Scale-Space

  • Authors:
  • Nicolas Mellado;Gaël Guennebaud;Pascal Barla;Patrick Reuter;Christophe Schlick

  • Affiliations:
  • Inria – Univ. Bordeaux – IOGS – CNRS;Inria – Univ. Bordeaux – IOGS – CNRS;Inria – Univ. Bordeaux – IOGS – CNRS;Inria – Univ. Bordeaux – IOGS – CNRS;Inria – Univ. Bordeaux – IOGS – CNRS

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

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Abstract

We present a novel approach to the multi-scale analysis of point-sampled manifolds of co-dimension 1. It is based on a variant of Moving Least Squares, whereby the evolution of a geometric descriptor at increasing scales is used to locate pertinent locations in scale-space, hence the name “Growing Least Squares”. Compared to existing scale-space analysis methods, our approach is the first to provide a continuous solution in space and scale dimensions, without requiring any parametrization, connectivity or uniform sampling. An important implication is that we identify multiple pertinent scales for any point on a manifold, a property that had not yet been demonstrated in the literature. In practice, our approach exhibits an improved robustness to change of input, and is easily implemented in a parallel fashion on the GPU. We compare our method to state-of-the-art scale-space analysis techniques and illustrate its practical relevance in a few application scenarios. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.