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DMAT: Deformable Medial Axis Transform for Animated Mesh Approximation
Author(s) -
Yang Baorong,
Yao Junfeng,
Guo Xiaohu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/cgf.13569
Subject(s) - medial axis , computer science , representation (politics) , computer graphics , surface (topology) , computer graphics (images) , set (abstract data type) , graphics , animation , computer vision , algorithm , artificial intelligence , geometry , mathematics , politics , political science , law , programming language
Extracting a faithful and compact representation of an animated surface mesh is an important problem for computer graphics. However, the surface‐based methods have limited approximation power for volume preservation when the animated sequences are extremely simplified. In this paper, we introduce Deformable Medial Axis Transform (DMAT), which is deformable medial mesh composed of a set of animated spheres. Starting from extracting an accurate and compact representation of a static MAT as the template and partitioning the vertices on the input surface as the correspondences for each medial primitive, we present a correspondence‐based approximation method equipped with an As‐Rigid‐As‐Possible (ARAP) deformation energy defined on medial primitives. As a result, our algorithm produces DMAT with consistent connectivity across the whole sequence, accurately approximating the input animated surfaces.