Skeletonization provides an effective and compact representation of objects, which is useful
for object description, retrieval, manipulation, matching, registration, tracking, recognition …

There is a growing need to be able to accurately and efficiently search visual data sets, and
in particular, 3D shape data sets. This paper proposes a novel technique, called Topology …

The power crust is a construction which takes a sample of points from the surface of a three-
dimensional object and produces a surface mesh and an approximate medial axis. The …

The intended audience of this book (and the combined two volumes especially) is quite
broad. It can be used in a variety of computer graphics courses or by those who are trying to …

The last half century has seen the development of many biological or physical t-ories that
have explicitly or implicitly involved medial descriptions of objects and other spatial entities …

The eikonal equation and variants of it are of significant interest for problems in computer
vision and image processing. It is the basis for continuous versions of mathematical …

Skeletonization promises to become a powerful tool for compact shape description, path
planning and other applications. However, current techniques can seldom efficiently process …

This paper investigates the main issues related to the definition of abstraction tools for
deriving high-level descriptions of complex geometric models. Among the wide range of …

Medial axis as a compact representation of shapes has evolved as an essential geometric
structure in a number of applications involving 3D geometric shapes. Since exact …

This paper provides simulation practitioners and consumers with a grounding in how
discrete-event simulation software works. Topics include discreteevent systems; entities …