BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Tokyo X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Tokyo BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0900 TZOFFSETTO:+0900 TZNAME:JST DTSTART:18871231T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T023312Z LOCATION:Hall B5 (1)\, B Block\, Level 5 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241205T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20241205T091100 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2024_sess124_papers_995@linklings.com SUMMARY:Dynamic Skeletonization via Variational Medial Axis Sampling DESCRIPTION:Technical Papers\n\nQijia HUANG, Pierre KRAEMER, Sylvain THERY , and Dominique BECHMANN (Université de Strasbourg; ICube, CNRS)\n\nWe pre sent a novel method for computing a discrete skeleton from a shape represe nted by a point cloud or triangle mesh.\nInspired by variational shape app roximation, our approach optimizes the partitioning of the input shape by minimizing an error metric defined between medial axis samples (medial sph eres) and their corresponding clusters.\nThe metric combines plane-sphere and point-sphere distance terms and the balance between these two terms en ables coarse skeletons to capture the main geometric features while denser skeletons achieve a uniform distribution of medial axis samples.\nThe sam pling of the medial axis is progressively refined through an automatic pro cess that splits medial spheres with the highest errors.\nOur method's eff iciency also allows users to dynamically add or remove medial axis samples locally while the optimization process continuously updates the underlyin g partition.\nSkeleton connectivity is efficiently constructed by computin g the dual of the optimized shape partition.\nUnlike previous approaches, our method does not rely on a predefined set of candidate spheres or an in itial medial axis representation.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, F ull Access Supporter\n\nLanguage Format: English Language\n\nSession Chair : Yotam Gingold (George Mason University) URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2024/program/?id=papers_995&sess=sess124 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR