Abstract

We show that the minimum value of a distance measure between 3-D polygonal arcs of equal length is the smallest eigenvalue of a certain matrix. Using this we develop a mismatch measure and a matching algorithm for 3-D polygonal arcs of unequal lengths.

Keywords:
Measure (data warehouse) Matching (statistics) Eigenvalues and eigenvectors Mathematics Matrix (chemical analysis) Length measurement Value (mathematics) Algorithm Arc length Polygonal chain Combinatorics Computer science Geometry Statistics Arc (geometry) Physics Optics Data mining

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Topics

3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Computational Mechanics
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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