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Paint Mesh Cutting
Author(s) -
Fan Lubin,
Lic Ligang,
Liu Kun
Publication year - 2011
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/j.1467-8659.2011.01895.x
Subject(s) - computer science , computer graphics (images) , flexibility (engineering) , graph , segmentation , metric (unit) , gaussian , computer vision , theoretical computer science , mathematics , statistics , operations management , physics , quantum mechanics , economics
We present a novel progressive painting‐based mesh cut out tool, called Paint Mesh Cutting, for interactive mesh segmentation. Different from the previous user interfaces, the user only needs to draw a single stroke on the foreground region and then obtains the desired cutting part at an interactive rate. Moreover, the user progressively paints the region of interest using a brush and has the instant feedback on cutting results as he/she drags the mouse. This is achieved by efficient local graph‐cut based optimizations based on the Gaussian mixture models (GMM) on the shape diameter function (SDF) metric of the shape. We demonstrate a number of various examples to illustrate the flexibility and applicability of our system and present a user study that supports the advantages of our user interface.