The Medial Axis Transform (MAT) is a powerful tool for shape analysis and manipulation. Traditional methods for working with shapes usually define shapes as boundaries between some “inside” and some “outside” region. While this definition is simple and intuitive, it does not lend itself well to the construction of algorithms for a number of seemingly simple tasks such as classification, deformation, and collision detection. The MAT is an alternative representation of shape that defines the “inside” region by its center and thickness. We present a method of constructing the MAT which overcomes a significant limitation of its use with real-world data: instability. As classically defined, the MAT is unstable with respect to the shape boundary that it represents. For data sources afflicted by noise this is a serious problem. We propose an algorithm, LSMAT, which constructs a stable least squares approximation to the MAT. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/11410 |
| Date | 23 December 2019 |
| Creators | Rebain, Daniel |
| Contributors | Tagliasacchi, Andrea, Yi, Kwang Moo |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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