A Unified Discrete Framework for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Dirac Operators for Geometry Processing

dc.contributor.authorYe, Zien_US
dc.contributor.authorDiamanti, Olgaen_US
dc.contributor.authorTang, Chengchengen_US
dc.contributor.authorGuibas, Leonidas J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorHoffmann, Timen_US
dc.contributor.editorJu, Tao and Vaxman, Amiren_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-27T12:54:38Z
dc.date.available2018-07-27T12:54:38Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractSpectral mesh analysis and processing methods, namely ones that utilize eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of linear operators on meshes, have been applied to numerous geometric processing applications. The operator used predominantly in these methods is the Laplace-Beltrami operator, which has the often-cited property that it is intrinsic, namely invariant to isometric deformation of the underlying geometry, including rigid transformations. Depending on the application, this can be either an advantage or a drawback. Recent work has proposed the alternative of using the Dirac operator on surfaces for spectral processing. The available versions of the Dirac operator either only focus on the extrinsic version, or introduce a range of mixed operators on a spectrum between fully extrinsic Dirac operator and intrinsic Laplace operator. In this work, we introduce a unified discretization scheme that describes both an extrinsic and intrinsic Dirac operator on meshes, based on their continuous counterparts on smooth manifolds. In this discretization, both operators are very closely related, and preserve their key properties from the smooth case. We showcase various applications of our operators, with improved numerics over prior work.en_US
dc.description.number5
dc.description.sectionheadersDiscrete Differential Geometry
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13494
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages93-106
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13494
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13494
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.5 [Computer Graphics]
dc.subjectComputational Geometry and Object Modeling
dc.subjectGeometric algorithms
dc.subjectlanguages
dc.subjectand systems
dc.titleA Unified Discrete Framework for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Dirac Operators for Geometry Processingen_US
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