Ridge-valley lines on meshes via implicit surface fitting

  • Authors:
  • Yutaka Ohtake;Alexander Belyaev;Hans-Peter Seidel

  • Affiliations:
  • RIKEN;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We propose a simple and effective method for detecting view-and scale-independent ridge-valley lines defined via first- and second-order curvature derivatives on shapes approximated by dense triangle meshes. A high-quality estimation of high-order surface derivatives is achieved by combining multi-level implicit surface fitting and finite difference approximations. We demonstrate that the ridges and valleys are geometrically and perceptually salient surface features, and, therefore, can be potentially used for shape recognition, coding, and quality evaluation purposes.