Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation of Line Segments and Graphs

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2012
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation (CVT) of points has many applications in geometry processing, including remeshing and segmentation, to name but a few. In this paper, we generalize the CVT concept to graphs via a variational characterization. Given a graph and a 3D polygonal surface, our method optimizes the placement of the vertices of the graph in such a way that the graph segments best approximate the shape of the surface. We formulate the computation of CVT for graphs as a continuous variational problem, and present a simple, approximate method for solving this problem. Our method is robust in the sense that it is independent of degeneracies in the input mesh, such as skinny triangles, T-junctions, small gaps or multiple connected components. We present some applications, to skeleton fitting and to shape segmentation.
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@article{
10.1111:j.1467-8659.2012.03058.x
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation of Line Segments and Graphs
}}, author = {
Lu, Lin
 and
Lévy, Bruno
 and
Wang, Wenping
}, year = {
2012
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03058.x
} }
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