Medial Skeletal Diagram: A Generalized Medial Axis Approach for 3D Shape Representation

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Main Authors: Guo, Minghao, Wang, Bohan, Matusik, Wojciech
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Published: 2023
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author Guo, Minghao
Wang, Bohan
Matusik, Wojciech
author_facet Guo, Minghao
Wang, Bohan
Matusik, Wojciech
contents We propose the Medial Skeletal Diagram, a novel skeletal representation that tackles the prevailing issues around skeleton sparsity and reconstruction accuracy in existing skeletal representations. Our approach augments the continuous elements in the medial axis representation to effectively shift the complexity away from the discrete elements. To that end, we introduce generalized enveloping primitives, an enhancement over the standard primitives in the medial axis, which ensure efficient coverage of intricate local features of the input shape and substantially reduce the number of discrete elements required. Moreover, we present a computational framework for constructing a medial skeletal diagram from an arbitrary closed manifold mesh. Our optimization pipeline ensures that the resulting medial skeletal diagram comprehensively covers the input shape with the fewest primitives. Additionally, each optimized primitive undergoes a post-refinement process to guarantee an accurate match with the source mesh in both geometry and tessellation. We validate our approach on a comprehensive benchmark of 100 shapes, demonstrating the sparsity of the discrete elements and superior reconstruction accuracy across a variety of cases. Finally, we exemplify the versatility of our representation in downstream applications such as shape generation, mesh decomposition, shape optimization, mesh alignment, mesh compression, and user-interactive design.
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spellingShingle Medial Skeletal Diagram: A Generalized Medial Axis Approach for 3D Shape Representation
Guo, Minghao
Wang, Bohan
Matusik, Wojciech
Graphics
We propose the Medial Skeletal Diagram, a novel skeletal representation that tackles the prevailing issues around skeleton sparsity and reconstruction accuracy in existing skeletal representations. Our approach augments the continuous elements in the medial axis representation to effectively shift the complexity away from the discrete elements. To that end, we introduce generalized enveloping primitives, an enhancement over the standard primitives in the medial axis, which ensure efficient coverage of intricate local features of the input shape and substantially reduce the number of discrete elements required. Moreover, we present a computational framework for constructing a medial skeletal diagram from an arbitrary closed manifold mesh. Our optimization pipeline ensures that the resulting medial skeletal diagram comprehensively covers the input shape with the fewest primitives. Additionally, each optimized primitive undergoes a post-refinement process to guarantee an accurate match with the source mesh in both geometry and tessellation. We validate our approach on a comprehensive benchmark of 100 shapes, demonstrating the sparsity of the discrete elements and superior reconstruction accuracy across a variety of cases. Finally, we exemplify the versatility of our representation in downstream applications such as shape generation, mesh decomposition, shape optimization, mesh alignment, mesh compression, and user-interactive design.
title Medial Skeletal Diagram: A Generalized Medial Axis Approach for 3D Shape Representation
topic Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09395