Morphable Surface Models

  • Authors:
  • Christian R. Shelton

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision - special issue on learning and vision at the center for biological and computational learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We describe a novel automatic technique for finding a dense correspondence between a pair of n-dimensional surfaces with arbitrary topologies. This method employs a different formulation than previous correspondence algorithms (such as optical flow) and includes images as a special case. We use this correspondence algorithm to build Morphable Surface Models (an extension of Morphable Models) from examples. We present a method for matching the model to new surfaces and demonstrate their use for analysis, synthesis, and clustering.