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Region Extraction in Mesh Intersection

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Emiliano Cirillo

Region extraction is a very common task in both Computer Science and Engineering with several applications in object recognition and motion analysis, among others. Most of the literature focuses on regions delimited by straight lines, often in the special ...

2023

Compactly-Supported Smooth Interpolators for Shape Modeling with Varying Resolution

Michaël Unser, Julien René Fageot, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

In applications that involve interactive curve and surface modeling, the intuitive manipulation of shapes is crucial. For instance, user interaction is facilitated if a geometrical object can be manipulated through control points that interpolate the shape ...

2017

Isogeometric approximation of cardiac electrophysiology models on surfaces: An accuracy study with application to the human left atrium

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Toni Mikael Lassila, Alessandro Samuele Patelli, Andrea Bartezzaghi

We consider Isogeometric Analysis in the framework of the Galerkin method for the spatial approximation of cardiac electrophysiology models defined on NURBS surfaces; specifically, we perform a numerical comparison between basis functions of degree p >= 1 ...

Elsevier2017

Artist-Oriented 3D Character Posing from 2D Strokes

Ronan Boulic, Benoît Le Callennec, Pawan Kumar Harish, Mentar Mahmudi

In this paper we present an intuitive tool suitable for 2D artists using touch-enabled pen tablets. An artist-oriented tool should be easy-to-use, real-time, versatile, and locally refinable. Our approach uses an interactive system for 3D character posing ...

Elsevier2016

An Inner-Product Calculus for Periodic Functions and Curves

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

Our motivation is the design of efficient algorithms to process closed curves represented by basis functions or wavelets. To that end, we introduce an inner-product calculus to evaluate correlations and

L _{ 2 }

distances between such curves. In partic ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

A Family of Smooth and Interpolatory Basis Functions for Parametric Curve and Surface Representation

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Ricard Delgado Gonzalo

Interpolatory basis functions are helpful to specify parametric curves or surfaces that can be modified by simple user-interaction. Their main advantage is a characterization of the object by a set of control points that lie on the shape itself (i.e., curv ...

2016

Motion Planning for Urban Autonomous Driving using Bezier Curves and MPC

Inaki Navarro Oiza

This paper presents a real-time motion planning scheme for urban autonomous driving that will be deployed as a basis for cooperative maneuvers defined in the European project AutoNet2030. We use a path-velocity decomposition approach to separate the motion ...

Ieee2016

Similarity-Based Shape Priors for 2D Spline Snakes

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

We present a new formulation of a shape space containing all continuously defined 2D spline curves up to a similarity transform of a reference shape. We are able to measure a distance between an arbitrary curve and the shape space itself. Our contribution ...

IEEE2015

Ellipse-Preserving Hermite Interpolation and Subdivision

Michaël Unser

We introduce a family of piecewise-exponential functions that have the Hermite interpolation property. Our design is motivated by the search for an effective scheme for the joint interpolation of points and associated tangents on a curve with the ability t ...

Elsevier2015

Affine congruences and rational points on a certain cubic surface

Pierre Francis André Le Boudec

We establish estimates for the number of solutions of certain affine congruences. These estimates are then used to prove Manin's conjecture for a cubic surface split over Q whose singularity type is D-4. This improves on a result of Browning and answers a ...

Mathematical Science Publ2014

An Algorithm to Improve Parameterizations of Rational Bézier Surfaces Using Rational Bilinear Reparameterization

Bailin Deng

The parameterization of rational Bézier surfaces greatly affects rendering and tessellation results. The uniformity and orthogonality of iso-parametric curves are two key properties of the optimal parameterization. The only rational Bézier surfaces with un ...

2013

G1 continuous approximate curves on NURBS surfaces

Bailin Deng

Curves on surfaces play an important role in computer aided geometric design. In this paper, we present a parabola approximation method based on the cubic reparameterization of rational Bezier surfaces, which generates G1 continuous approximate curves lyin ...

2012

Realistic Analytical Phantoms for Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Michaël Unser, Matthieu Guerquin-Kern

The quantitative validation of reconstruction algorithms requires reliable data. Rasterized simulations are popular but they are tainted by an aliasing component that impacts the assessment of the performance of reconstruction. We introduce analytical simu ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Fourier Approximation Of Symmetric Ideal Knots

Enforcing a specific symmetry group on a curve, knotted or not, is not trivial using standard interpolations such as polygons or splines. For a prescribed symmetry group we present a symmetrization process based on a Fourier description of a knot. The pres ...

2012

Parametric B-Spline Snakes on Distance Maps—Application to Segmentation of Histology Images

Michaël Unser, Philippe Thévenaz, François Aguet, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula

We construct parametric active contours (snakes) for outlining cells in histology images. These snakes are defined in terms of cubic B-spline basis functions. We use a steerable ridge detector for obtaining a reliable map of the cell boundaries. Using the ...

EURASIP2008

On the facet-to-facet property of solutions to convex parametric quadratic programs

Colin Neil Jones

In some of the recently developed algorithms for convex parametric quadratic programs it is implicitly assumed that the intersection of the closures of two adjacent critical regions is a facet of both closures; this will be referred to as the facet-to-face ...

2006