SMA
1997
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
1997
ACM
: Modeling of families of geometric objects is a major topic in modern geometric and solid modeling. Object families are central to many important solid modeling applications, incl...
SPATIALCOGNITION
1998
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
1998
Springer
This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
PG
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
1999
IEEE
In this paper we introduce a mesh approximation method that uses a volume-based metric. After a geometric simplification, we minimize the volume between the simplified mesh and th...
ICRA
1999
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
1999
IEEE
Important robotic tasks could be most effectively done by powerful and accurate manipulators. However, high accuracy is generally unattainable in manipulators capable of producing...
SIGGRAPH
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2010
ACM
High-order and regularly sampled surface representations are more efficient and compact than general meshes and considerably simplify many geometric modeling and processing algor...
IV
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
: In computer-aided design, geometric modeling by constraints enables users to describe shapes by relationships called constraints between geometric elements. The problem is to der...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2003
IEEE
Estimating intrinsic geometric properties of a surface from a polygonal mesh obtained from range data is an important stage of numerous algorithms in computer and robot vision, co...
IMR
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper presents a technique for the adaptive refinement of tetrahedral meshes. What makes it unique is that no neighbor information is required for the refined mesh to be co...
COMPGEOM
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2004
ACM
We present memory-efficient deterministic algorithms for constructing -nets and -approximations of streams of geometric data. Unlike probabilistic approaches, these deterministic...
KIVS
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
: The usage of SuperPeers has been proposed to improve the performance of both Structured and Unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this paper we explore a network-aware cla...