A 3-D Contour Segmentation Scheme Based on Curvature and Torsion

  • Authors:
  • N. Kehtarnavaz;J. P. deFigueiredo

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M Univ., College Station;Rice Univ., Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The Darboux vector contains both the curvature and torsion of a three-dimensional (3-D) image as its components. Curvature measures how sharply a curve is turning while torsion measures the extent of its twist in 3-D space. Curvature and torsion completely define the shape of a 3-D curve. A scheme is presented that uses the length of this vector, also called the total curvature, for the segmentation of 3-D contours. A quintic B-spline is used in this formulation to obtain the total curvature for noisy data. Examples of nonnoisy and noisy data illustrate the merit of the scheme.