Beta-connection: Generating a family of models from planar cross sections
Luis Gustavo Nonato, Alex Jesus Cuadros-Vargas, Rosane Minghim, Maria Cristina F. De Oliveira
In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 24(4), October 2005.
Abstract: Despite the significant evolution of techniques for 3D-reconstruction from planar cross sections, establishing the correspondence of regions in adjacent slices remains an important issue. In this article,we propose a novel approach for solving the correspondence problem in a flexible manner.We show that from the 3D Delaunay triangulation, it is possible to derive a distance measure among regions lying in adjacent slices. Such distance is used to define a positive integer parameter, called β, responsible for establishing the connections. Varying β thus allows the construction of different models from a given set of cross-sectional regions: small values of β causes closer regions to be connected into a single component, and as β increases, more distant regions are connected together. The algorithm, named β-connection, is described, and examples are provided that illustrate its applicability in solid modeling and model reconstruction from real data. The underlying reconstruction method is effective, which jointly with the β-connection correspondence strategy, improve the usability of volumetric reconstruction techniques considerably.
Keyword(s): TOG, Cross sections, Delaunay triangulation
Article URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1095878.1095879
BibTeX format:
@article{Nonato:2005:BGA,
  author = {Luis Gustavo Nonato and Alex Jesus Cuadros-Vargas and Rosane Minghim and Maria Cristina F. De Oliveira},
  title = {Beta-connection: Generating a family of models from planar cross sections},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  volume = {24},
  number = {4},
  pages = {1239--1258},
  month = oct,
  year = {2005},
}
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