{"title":"Constrained Shape Control of Bicubic B-Spline Surfaces by Knots","authors":"M. Hoffmann, I. Juhász","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.15","url":null,"abstract":"Constrained modification of B-spline surfaces is essential in geometric design. Modification tools by purely knot alteration are presented in this paper: moving an isoparametric line to a specified location and dragging a point of the surface to a predefined point. Both methods yield smoother change than the well-known control point repositioning, while in the first case symmetric bodies can be deformed in a constrained way by automatically preserving their symmetry. Since the modified surface remains in the original convex hull, these techniques can be useful tools in the fine tuning phase, when users do not want to change the overall shape of the body","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128374570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manipulation of Elastically Deformable Surfaces through Maya Plug-in","authors":"L. You, Javier Romero Rodriguez, J. Zhang","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.33","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we develop a mathematical model from the theory of plate bending in elasticity which relates physical properties of a surface to its elastic deformation. We present the finite difference solution of the mathematical model and implement it using the Maya API and the MEL scripting language. We examine the effects of material properties and other factors on surface shapes and demonstrate applications of the proposed approach in controlling the shape of elastically deformable surfaces","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125416293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visualization of Temporal-Oriented Datasets","authors":"Jun Gao, P. Revesz","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.49","url":null,"abstract":"Visualization and interpolation naturally go together and strengthen each other. The paper presents an interpolation method as a pre-processing tool to generate the missing data to be visualized. The method is applied in election prediction, a typical temporal-oriented spatiotemporal dataset. The experimental results demonstrate the ability of the methods to accurately predict the presidential election","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115331853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-Performance Rendering on Clusters of Workstations","authors":"S. Dalal, F. Dévai, Mizanur Rahman","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.27","url":null,"abstract":"The computer-graphics aspects of the visualization of large data sets, in particular, digital models of real or planned solid objects in a heterogeneous distributed environment are investigated. It is demonstrated that binary-swap compositing does not scale well on networks of workstations. A multi-server system, based on scanline algorithms and using Java technology, is proposed. The proposed system is efficient as servers only need to solve a problem of growth rate of n log n, it is fault tolerant as both lost messages and server failures are tolerated, and it has negligible hardware costs as it runs on existing networks of workstations. The system is also scalable, as data sets are sent to all servers in the same packets, regardless of the number of servers, and the amount of data sent back by servers only depends on the resolution of the final image","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130887130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lattice Boltzmann Method for Real-Time Simulation of Lava Flows","authors":"Daniel van Raay, T. Bossomaier","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.32","url":null,"abstract":"Methods for simulating viscous liquid flows, such as volcanic lava, are developed for use in real-time interactive graphical applications such as computer games. Eulerian lattice Boltzmann methods are implemented and compared to simpler models based on cellular automata and particle systems. A new storage method, the chunky octree, a technique for removing instabilities through velocity limiting and a local approximation to global conservation, the swell and decay method are introduced to achieve real-time performance with frame creation to match video frame rates on desktop computers","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130933618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling Deformable Objects for Computer-Aided Sculpting (CAS)Modeling Deformable Objects for Computer-Aided Sculpting (CAS)","authors":"P. Igwe, G. Knopf","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.36","url":null,"abstract":"Software tools for modeling complex freeform objects require the designer to use sophisticated procedures and complex protocols that do not inherently support the creative design process. Typical tasks include tedious control point manipulation and manual surface patch stitching operations. An interactive computer-aided sculpting (CAS) framework based upon deformable geometric models is described in this paper. The technique exploits the topology and learning algorithm of a self-organizing feature map (SOFM) to generate an adaptive volumetric mesh comprised of hexahedral elements. The pre-ordered lattice of the SOFM maintains the relative connectivity of neighbouring nodes in the mesh as it transforms under external and internal forces. Prior to virtual sculpting, the shape primitive is either retrieved from the object database or created by fitting a deformable mesh to representative surface points. Material and dynamic properties are incorporated into the deformable solid model by treating the surface and interior nodes as point masses connected with a network of springs. Illustrations are provided to demonstrate the virtual sculpting framework","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131228492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image Retrieval of Songket Motifs Using Simple Shape Descriptors","authors":"N. Jamil, Z. Bakar, T. Sembok","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.29","url":null,"abstract":"Songket is a traditional handwoven cloth of the Malays and its beauty lies on the design of the songket motifs intricately woven on the cloth. Even though color is a feature of the motif, shape is more important in determining the type of the motifs. This paper describes and tests the efficiency of retrieving songket motifs images using different combination of five geometric shape descriptors. Even though there are many existing approaches of shape-based image retrievals, the goal of this paper is to take advantage of the faster calculations of the geometric shape descriptors to retrieve the images. Fifty selected songket motifs are used as sample queries in this paper. Similarities of these images are measured using Euclidean distance and performance of the retrieval effectiveness is evaluated using recall and precision rate. Results of the experiment showed that geometric shape descriptors are effective in retrieving the songket motifs","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115865296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video Classification Using Normalized Information Distance","authors":"K. Kaabneh, A. Abdullah, Z. Al-Halalemah","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.46","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a vast collection of multimedia resources on the net. This has opened an opening for researchers to explore and advance the science in the field of research in storing, handling, and retrieving digital videos. Video classification and segmentation are fundamental steps for efficient accessing; retrieving, browsing and compressing large amount of video data. The basic operation video analysis is to design a system that can accurately and automatically segments video material into shots and scenes. This paper presents a detailed video segmentation technique based on pervious researches which lacks performance and since some of the videos is stored in a compressed form using the normalized information distance (NID) which approximates the value of a theoretical distance between objects using the Kolmogrov complexity theory. This technique produced a better result in reference to performance, high recall of 95.5% and a precision of 89.7%","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129162589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. G. Marichal-Hernández, F. P. Nava, F. Rosa, R. Restrepo, J. Rodríguez-Ramos
{"title":"An Integrated System for Virtual Scene Rendering, Stereo Reconstruction and Accuracy Estimation.","authors":"J. G. Marichal-Hernández, F. P. Nava, F. Rosa, R. Restrepo, J. Rodríguez-Ramos","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.7","url":null,"abstract":"This article depicts an integrated system capable of generating virtual stereo scenes, reconstructing a three-dimensional map of distances, and calculating the accuracy of the results obtained. This tool is particularly useful for verifying the validity of distance reconstruction techniques, and is robust enough to use in a wide variety of scenarios since it avoids the need for an image-capture system in laboratory simulations. The importance of the distance reconstruction problem lies in the range of its applications: industrial inspection and quality control, surveillance and security, autonomous vehicles, robotic systems, medical image analysis, image databases, virtual reality, telepresence, and telerobotics. The system is based on the VRML standard for three-dimensional geometric scene representation, on OpenGL for rendering virtual scenes, and on the TRW algorithm for the problem of three-dimensional reconstruction","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133579943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Object Recognition Using Moments: Some Experiments and Observations","authors":"M. Sarfraz","doi":"10.1109/GMAI.2006.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GMAI.2006.39","url":null,"abstract":"In many image analysis and computer vision applications, object recognition is the ultimate goal. This work presents study and experimentation for object recognition when isolated objects are under discussion. The circumstances of similarity transformations, presence of noise, and occlusion have been included as the part of the study. For simplicity, instead of objects, outline of the objects have been used for the whole process of the recognition. Hu's moments and their extended counterparts have been used as features of the objects. Various similarity measures have been used and compared for recognition. The test objects are matched with the model objects in database and the object with the least similarity measure is taken as the recognized object. A detailed experimental study has been made under different conditions and circumstances including transformation, noise, and occlusion. Databases of different sizes have been used to have a look at various experimentations. Some interesting observations have been made which may be useful for research and practicing community","PeriodicalId":438098,"journal":{"name":"Geometric Modeling and Imaging--New Trends (GMAI'06)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133607261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}