Shape-from-Operator: Recovering Shapes from Intrinsic Operators

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2015
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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We formulate the problem of shape-from-operator (SfO), recovering an embedding of a mesh from intrinsic operators defined through the discrete metric (edge lengths). Particularly interesting instances of our SfO problem include: shape-from-Laplacian, allowing to transfer style between shapes; shape-from-difference operator, used to synthesize shape analogies; and shape-from-eigenvectors, allowing to generate 'intrinsic averages' of shape collections. Numerically, we approach the SfO problem by splitting it into two optimization sub-problems: metric-from-operator (reconstruction of the discrete metric from the intrinsic operator) and embedding-from-metric (finding a shape embedding that would realize a given metric, a setting of the multidimensional scaling problem). We study numerical properties of our problem, exemplify it on several applications, and discuss its imitations.
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@article{
10.1111:cgf.12558
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Shape-from-Operator: Recovering Shapes from Intrinsic Operators
}}, author = {
Boscaini, Davide
and
Eynard, Davide
and
Kourounis, Drosos
and
Bronstein, Michael M.
}, year = {
2015
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.12558
} }
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