Geometry of the Squared Distance Function to Curves and Surfaces.
Helmut PottmannMichael HoferPublished in: VisMath (2002)
Keyphrases
- distance function
- euclidean distance
- implicit polynomial
- space curves
- three dimensional
- knn
- nearest neighbor
- distance measure
- similarity search
- geodesic distance
- surface matching
- metric space
- smooth curves
- free form
- surface geometry
- closed curves
- distance metric
- smooth surfaces
- surface properties
- surface reconstruction
- k nearest neighbor
- shape space
- nearest neighbor classification
- surface patches
- data points
- intrinsic manifold
- distance computation
- range data
- data sets
- principal curves
- d objects
- databases
- database