Uniform cubic B-spline functions have been used for mapping functions in various areas such as image warping and morphing, 3D deformation, and volume morphing. The injectivity (one-to-one property) of a mapping function is important to obtain good results in these areas. This paper considers the local injectivity conditions of 2D and 3D uniform cubic B-spline functions. We propose a geometric i...

Object-based video coding requires the transmission of the object shape. This shape is sent as a binary α-plane. In lossy packetbased networks, such as the Internet, this information has a nonnegligible probability of not arriving at the receiver, and hence its loss needs to be concealed. In this paper we propose a shape concealment technique utilizing Hermite splines. The algorithm has the fol...

Based on the cubic B-spline curve, new Chinese fonts are generated by wavelet transforms in this paper. The outlines of Chinese fonts are first transformed into B-spline curves. Then, using wavelet transforms, the control points of each curve are decomposed into hierarchies containing the detailed features of the Chinese fonts. Using the synthesis procedure of wavelet transforms, new fonts can ...

In this article, a fourth order quintic spline method has been developed to obtain numerical solutions for second order boundary value problems with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The developments of the quintic spline method and convergence analysis were presented. Three test problems have been considered for comparison purposes. The numerical results showed that the quintic spline method is m...

A geometrically exact membrane formulation is presented that is based on curvilinear coordinates and isogeometric finite elements, and is suitable for both solid and liquid membranes. The curvilinear coordinate system is used to describe both the theory and the finite element equations of the membrane. In the latter case this avoids the use of local cartesian coordinates at the element level. C...

The paper develops a rational bi-cubic G2 (curvature continuous) analogue of the non-uniform polynomial C2 cubic B-spline paradigm. These rational splines can exactly reproduce parts of multiple basic shapes, such as cyclides and quadrics, in one by default smoothly-connected structure. The versatility of this new tool for processing exact geometry is illustrated by conceptual design from basic...

A finite-element approach, based on cubic B-spline collocation, is presented for the numerical solution of Troesch’s problem. The method is used on both a uniform mesh and a piecewise-uniform Shishkin mesh, depending on the magnitude of the eigenvalues. This is due to the existence of a boundary layer at the right endpoint of the domain for relatively large eigenvalues. The problem is also solv...

Cubic splines are commonly used in numerical analysis. It has also become popular in the analysis of computer experiments, thanks to its adoption by the software JMP 8.0.2 2010. In this paper a Bayesian version of the cubic spline method is proposed, in which the random function that represents prior uncertainty about y is taken to be a specific stationary Gaussian process and y is the output o...

Based on analysis of basic cubic spline interpolation, the clamped cubic spline interpolation is generalized in this paper. The methods are presented on the condition that the first derivative and second derivative of arbitrary node are given. The Clamped spline and Curvature-adjusted cubic spline are also generalized. The methods are presented on the condition that the first derivatives of arb...

Based on analysis of basic cubic spline interpolation, the clamped cubic spline interpolation is generalized in this paper. The methods are presented on the condition that the first derivative and second derivative of arbitrary node are given. The Clamped spline and Curvature-adjusted cubic spline are also generalized. The methods are presented on the condition that the first derivatives of arb...