Smoothness and geometry of boundaries associated to skeletal structures I: sufficient conditions for smoothness. (Q1417742)
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Smoothness and geometry of boundaries associated to skeletal structures I: sufficient conditions for smoothness. (English)
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6 January 2004
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The notion of a skeletal structure \((M,U)\) in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) is introduced. Here, \(M\) is a special type of Whitney stratified subset of \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) and \(U\) is a special type of multivalued radial vector field on \(M\). Such a structure has an associated boundary \(\mathcal B\) and the main result gives necessary and sufficient conditions (in terms of shape operators) for \(\mathcal B\) to be smooth. This is accomplished via a detailed study of radial flows and tubular neighborhoods appropriate in the current context. This paper is related to the analysis of shapes in computer imaging and vision. In fact, the main example of a skeletal structure offered is the Blum medial axis of an object in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\).
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Whitney stratified set
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skeletal strucuture
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shape operator
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radial flow
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grassfire flow
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tubular neighborhood
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shock set
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Blum medial axis
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