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Fuzzy Geodesics and Consistent Sparse Correspondences For Deformable Shapes

Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing), July 2010

Jian Sun, Xiaobai Chen, Thomas Funkhouser
The sum of the fuzzy geodesics between all pairs of marked points
Abstract

A geodesic is a parameterized curve on a Riemannian manifold governed by a second order partial differential equation. Geodesics are notoriously unstable: small perturbations of the underlying manifold may lead to dramatic changes of the course of a geodesic. Such instability makes it difficult to use geodesics in many applications, in particular in the world of discrete geometry. In this paper, we consider a geodesic as the indicator function of the set of the points on the geodesic. From this perspective, we present a new concept called fuzzy geodesics and show that fuzzy geodesics are stable with respect to the Gromov-Hausdorff distance. Based on fuzzy geodesics, we propose a new object called the intersection configuration for a set of points on a shape and demonstrate its effectiveness in the application of finding consistent correspondences between sparse sets of points on shapes differing by extreme deformations.
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Jian Sun, Xiaobai Chen, and Thomas Funkhouser.
"Fuzzy Geodesics and Consistent Sparse Correspondences For Deformable Shapes."
Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing) 29(5), July 2010.

BibTeX

@article{Sun:2010:FGA,
   author = "Jian Sun and Xiaobai Chen and Thomas Funkhouser",
   title = "Fuzzy Geodesics and Consistent Sparse Correspondences For Deformable
      Shapes",
   journal = "Computer Graphics Forum (Symposium on Geometry Processing)",
   year = "2010",
   month = jul,
   volume = "29",
   number = "5"
}