In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a b s t r a c t In this paper, we consider the properties of monotonicity-preserving and global conservation preserving for ...

Investigating the Eulerian numbers and uniform B-spline recurrence relations, a connection between Eulerian numbers and B-spline values at knot points is proved, and a relation to inner products of uniform B-splines is shown. This connection allows, with few operations, to evaluate the B-spline curve at domain knots and could be utilized to obtain an easy approximation and representation of B-s...

Sliding motion is a challenge for deformable image registration because it leads to discontinuities in the sought deformation. In this paper, we present a method to handle sliding motion using multiple B-spline transforms. The proposed method decomposes the sought deformation into sliding regions to allow discontinuities at their interfaces, but prevents unrealistic solutions by forcing those i...

By a d-dimensional B-spline object (denoted as ), we mean a B-spline curve (d = 1), a B-spline surface (d = 2) or a B-spline volume (d = 3). By regularization of a B-spline object we mean the process of relocating the control points of such that they approximate an isometric map of its definition domain in certain directions and is shape preserving. In this paper we develop an efficient regul...

An algorithm is presented that constructs a C 2-continuous B-spline quaternion curve which interpolates a given sequence of unit quaternions on the rotation group SO(3). The de Casteljau type construction method of B-spline curves can be extended to generate B-spline quaternion curves Sch92]; however, the B-spline quaternion curves do not have C 2-continuity in SO(3). The authors KKS94a] recent...

Simple geometric proofs are given for the total positivity of the B-spline collocation matrix and the variation diminishing property of the B-spline representation of a spline.

O. Ismail, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract— This paper presents an efficient method for degree elevation of interval B-spline curves. The four fixed Kharitonov's polynomials (four fixed B-spline curves) associated with the original interval B-spline curve are obtained. The method is based on the matrix identity. The B-spline basis functions are represented as linear combinations of the B-splines o...

Asymptote is widely used in astronomy, mechanics, architecture and relevant subjects. In this paper, by analyzing the Frenet frame and the Darboux frame of a curve on the surface, the necessary and sufficient conditions for a quadrilateral boundary being asymptotic of a surface are derived. This quadrilateral is called asymptotic quadrilateral. Given corner data including positions, tangents an...