Weak and approximate curvatures of a measure: a varifold perspective

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2022.112983zbMATH Open1491.49032arXiv1904.05930OpenAlexW2936011269MaRDI QIDQ2145652FDOQ2145652

Simon Masnou, Blanche Buet, Gian Paolo Leonardi

Publication date: 17 June 2022

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By revisiting the notion of generalized second fundamental form originally introduced by Hutchinson for a special class of integral varifolds, we define a weak curvature tensor that is particularly well-suited for being extended to general varifolds of any dimension and codimension through regularization. The resulting approximate second fundamental forms are defined not only for piecewise-smooth surfaces, but also for datasets of very general type (like, e.g., point clouds). We obtain explicitly computable formulas for both weak and approximate curvature tensors, we exhibit structural properties and prove convergence results, and lastly we provide some numerical tests on point clouds that confirm the generality and effectiveness of our approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05930

zbMATH Keywords

point cloudvarifoldapproximate second fundamental formregularized variations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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