MESH SIMPLIFICATION USING DISTANCE LABELS FOR VIEW-INDEPENDENT SILHOUETTE PRESERVATION

Susana Mata, Luis Pastor, Angel Rodríguez

2008

Abstract

Multiresolution modelling is a good method to achieve both quality and performance in the rendering of complex scenes. Within this framework, the detection and preservation of outstanding features, such us silhouettes, become very important. The goal of this paper is to present a technique based on Distance Transforms that allows to classify the elements of the mesh according to their proximity to both the internal and the external contours and makes use of this information for weighting the approximation error which will be tolerated during the mesh simplification process. The approach used in this work precomputes silhouettes for a given set of cameras and performs an estimation for any other point of view. The results obtained are evaluated in two ways: visually and using an objective metric that measures the geometrical difference between two polygonal meshes.

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Mata S., Pastor L. and Rodríguez A. (2008). MESH SIMPLIFICATION USING DISTANCE LABELS FOR VIEW-INDEPENDENT SILHOUETTE PRESERVATION . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 5-14. DOI: 10.5220/0001096300050014


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@conference{grapp08,
author={Susana Mata and Luis Pastor and Angel Rodríguez},
title={MESH SIMPLIFICATION USING DISTANCE LABELS FOR VIEW-INDEPENDENT SILHOUETTE PRESERVATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={5-14},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001096300050014},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - MESH SIMPLIFICATION USING DISTANCE LABELS FOR VIEW-INDEPENDENT SILHOUETTE PRESERVATION
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - Mata S.
AU - Pastor L.
AU - Rodríguez A.
PY - 2008
SP - 5
EP - 14
DO - 10.5220/0001096300050014