The spherical harmonic (SPHARM) description is a powerful surface modeling technique that can model arbitrarily shaped but simply connected 3D objects and has been used in many app...
Heng Huang, Li Shen, Rong Zhang, Fillia Makedon, B...
Automatic image annotation has attracted a lot of attention recently as a method for facilitating semantic indexing and text-based retrieval of visual content. In this paper, we pr...
We present in this paper a novel approach for shape description based on kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). The strength of this method resides in the similarity (rotatio...
Classification is one of the basic tasks of data mining in modern database applications including molecular biology, astronomy, mechanical engineering, medical imaging or meteorolo...
This paper presents a method to simulate growth phenomena, and its application to the modeling of complex organic shapes (e.g., plants organs) and folded surfaces. Our main contri...