A variational approach to spline curves on surfaces.
Helmut PottmannMichael HoferPublished in: Comput. Aided Geom. Des. (2005)
Keyphrases
- spline curve
- b spline
- implicit polynomial
- surface fitting
- control points
- curve fitting
- space curves
- algebraic curves
- geodesic paths
- smooth curves
- smooth surfaces
- planar curves
- edge preserving
- closed curves
- cubic spline
- arbitrary topology
- least squares
- free form
- curvature flow
- three dimensional
- principal curves
- endpoints
- multiresolution
- affine transformation
- surface properties
- tensor product
- differential geometry
- matching algorithm
- critical points
- affine invariant
- pose estimation
- parametric curves
- curve matching
- variational methods
- preserving transformations