A Novel Representation for Riemannian Analysis of Elastic Curves in Rn
- 1 June 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2007, 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2007.383185
Abstract
We propose a novel representation of continuous, closed curves in Rn that is quite efficient for analyzing their shapes. We combine the strengths of two important ideas-elastic shape metric and path-straightening methods - in shape analysis and present a fast algorithm for finding geodesies in shape spaces. The elastic metric allows for optimal matching of features while path-straightening provides geodesies between curves. Efficiency results from the fact that the elastic metric becomes the simple L2 metric in the proposed representation. We present step-by-step algorithms for computing geodesies in this framework, and demonstrate them with 2-D as well as 3-D examples.Keywords
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