Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic Computation based on Triangle-oriented Wavefront Propagation

Yipeng Qin National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University Xiaoguang Han The University of Hong Kong Hongchuan Yu National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University Yizhou Yu The University of Hong Kong Jianjun Zhang National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University

Computational Geometry mathscidoc:1801.09001

ACM Transactions on Graphics, 35, (4), 2016
Computing discrete geodesic distance over triangle meshes is one of the fundamental problems in computational geometry and computer graphics. In this problem, an effective window pruning strategy can significantly affect the actual running time. Due to its importance, we conduct an in-depth study of window pruning operations in this paper, and produce an exhaustive list of scenarios where one window can make another window partially or completely redundant. To identify a maximal number of redundant windows using such pairwise cross checking, we propose a set of procedures to synchronize local window propagation within the same triangle by simultaneously propagating a collection of windows from one triangle edge to its two opposite edges. On the basis of such synchronized window propagation, we design a new geodesic computation algorithm based on a triangle-oriented region growing scheme. Our geodesic algorithm can remove most of the redundant windows at the earliest possible stage, thus significantly reducing computational cost and memory usage at later stages. In addition, by adopting triangles instead of windows as the primitive in propagation management, our algorithm significantly cuts down the data management overhead. As a result, it runs 4-15 times faster than MMP and ICH algorithms, 2-4 times faster than FWP-MMP and FWP-CH algorithms, and also incurs the least memory usage.
Discrete Geodesics, Pairwise Window Pruning, Order Preservation, Window List Propagation, Wavefront Propagation
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@inproceedings{yipeng2016fast,
  title={Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic Computation based on Triangle-oriented Wavefront Propagation},
  author={Yipeng Qin, Xiaoguang Han, Hongchuan Yu, Yizhou Yu, and Jianjun Zhang},
  url={http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20180105182322270190872},
  booktitle={ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  volume={35},
  number={4},
  year={2016},
}
Yipeng Qin, Xiaoguang Han, Hongchuan Yu, Yizhou Yu, and Jianjun Zhang. Fast and Exact Discrete Geodesic Computation based on Triangle-oriented Wavefront Propagation. 2016. Vol. 35. In ACM Transactions on Graphics. http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_paperurl/20180105182322270190872.
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