The metamorphosis of 3D binary objects using morphological interpolation

  • Authors:
  • Marcin Iwanowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, ul.Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa

  • Venue:
  • Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents a new method of metamorphosis of three-dimensional objects by means of an interpolation method based on mathematical morphology supported by an affine transform. The metamorphosis is a process of smooth transformation of one object into another, the result of which is stored in a sequence of 3D images. The proposed method is automatic - the only data necessary consists of: two input 3D binary objects (the initial one and the final one) and an additional parameter - either the number of frames in the final sequence or the highest value of the dissimilarity measure. The method consists in performing successive computations of morphological median objects. The proposed interpolation scheme is a new application of morphological interpolation to 3D image metamorphosis. Also, it combines 3D morphology with affine object matching. The proposed interpolation sequence algorithm is a new one and allows us to produce the interpolation sequence by considering dissimilarity measures between the consecutive frames. The method can be applied to animation in computer graphics and visualization of three-dimensional data.