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Sparse data driven mesh deformation

Gao, Lin, Lai, Yu-kun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-5680, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Ling-Xiao, Xia, Shihong and Kobbelt, Leif 2021. Sparse data driven mesh deformation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 27 (3) , pp. 2085-2100. 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2941200

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Abstract

Example-based mesh deformation methods are powerful tools for realistic shape editing. However, existing techniques typically combine all the example deformation modes, which can lead to overfitting, i.e. using an overly complicated model to explain the user-specified deformation. This leads to implausible or unstable deformation results, including unexpected global changes outside the region of interest. To address this fundamental limitation, we propose a sparse blending method that automatically selects a smaller number of deformation modes to compactly describe the desired deformation. This along with a suitably chosen deformation basis including spatially localized deformation modes leads to significant advantages, including more meaningful, reliable, and efficient deformations because fewer and localized deformation modes are applied. To cope with large rotations, we develop a simple but effective representation based on polar decomposition of deformation gradients, which resolves the ambiguity of large global rotations using an as-consistent-as-possible global optimization. This simple representation has a closed form solution for derivatives, making it efficient for our sparse localized representation and thus ensuring interactive performance. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art data-driven mesh deformation methods, for both quality of results and efficiency.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher: IEEE
ISSN: 1077-2626
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 7 October 2019
Date of Acceptance: 13 August 2019
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2023 18:56
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125792

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