Seminar Details
| Date |
17-5-2007 |
| Time |
10:00 |
| Room/Location |
Al DISI, in Sala conferenze-3° piano |
| Title |
On Computing Handles and Tunnels |
| Speaker |
Dott. Tamal Dey |
| Affiliation |
Department of Computer Science and Engineering , The Ohio State University , Columbus (Ohio), USA |
| Link |
http://www.osu.edu/
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| Abstract |
Many applications seek to identify features like
`handles' and `tunnels' in a shape bordered by
a surface embedded in three dimensions. To this end we define
handle and tunnel loops on surfaces which can help identifying these features.
We show that a closed surface of genus $g$ always has $g$ handle
and $g$ tunnel loops induced by the embedding.
For a class of shapes that retract to graphs,
we characterize these loops by a linking condition with these graphs.
These characterizations lead to algorithms for
detection and generation of these loops. We provide an
implementation with applications to feature detection
and topology simplification to show the
effectiveness of the method. |
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