Centroidal Voronoi Tesselation of Line Segments and Graphs

Centroidal Voronoi Tesselation (CVT) of points has many applications in geometry processing, including re-meshing and segmentation to name but a few. In this paper, we propose a new extension of CVT, generalized to graphs. Given a graph and a 3D polygonal surface, our method optimizes the placement of the vertices of the graph in such a way that the graph segments best approximate the shape of the surface. We formulate the computation of CVT for graphs as a continuous variational problem, and present a simple approximated method to solve this problem. Our method is robust in the sense that it is independent of degeneracies in the input mesh, such as skinny triangles, T-junctions, small gaps or multiple connected components. We present some applications, to skeleton fitting and to shape segmentation. CR Categories: I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling—Geometric algorithms, languages, and systems; Algorithms