Transforming 3D mesh surfaces into images by parameterization

  • Authors:
  • Jingqi Yan;Pengfei Shi;David Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Integrated image and graphics technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This chapter addresses the problem of mesh parameterization for transforming 3D mesh surfaces into images. We begin with a survey of the algorithms for parameterizing a chart, a simply connected mesh isomorphic to a topological disk, into a 2D domain and follow this with a review of several classic and popular parameterization algorithms based on solving the linear or non-linear systems, for instance, barycentric mapping, conformal mapping, harmonic mapping, and geometrical stretch minimizing. We then introduce state-of-the-art methods for opening an arbitrary mesh into a topological disk by cutting along an appropriate set of edges or for partitioning it into several charts. The chapter ends with a discussion of some related applications, such as texture mapping, remeshing, and mesh compression.