introduction 3d reconstruction of an object from its 2d cross-sections (slices) has many applications in different fields of sciences such as medical physics and biomedical engineering. in order to perform 3d reconstruction, at first, desired boundaries at each slice are detected and then using a correspondence between points of successive slices surface of desired object is reconstructed. mate...

depends strongly on t. In particular, it can become arbitrarily large if I becomes small in comparison to some of its neighboring knot intervals. In this context, B. Swartz [S] raises the following question: Is it possible to so scale this basis that its condition with respect to the max-norm on I is bounded independently of t ? Precisely, can one find diagonal matrices Ft and Et so that the ma...

This paper presents an implementation framework for spline spaces over T-meshes (and their d-dimensional analogs). The aim is to share code between the implementation of several spline spaces. This is achieved by reducing evaluation to a generalized Bézier extraction. The approach was tested by implementing hierarchical B-splines, truncated hierarchical B-splines, decoupled hierarchical B-splin...

It is shown that a bounded bi-infinite banded totally positive matrix A is boundedly invertible iff there is one and only one bounded sequence mapped by A to the sequence ((-)')■ The argument shows that such a matrix has a main diagonal, i.e., the inverse of A is the bounded pointwise limit of inverses of finite sections of A principal with respect to a particular diagonal; hence ((—)'+^4~ (j, ...

It is shown that a bounded bi-infinite banded totally positive matrix A is boundedly invertible iff there is one and only one bounded sequence mapped by A to the sequence ((-)')■ The argument shows that such a matrix has a main diagonal, i.e., the inverse of A is the bounded pointwise limit of inverses of finite sections of A principal with respect to a particular diagonal; hence ((—)'+^4~ (j, ...

The local support basis representation of the ‘weighted v-spline’ i s de r ived in t e rms o f doub le kno t cub ic B-sp l ines , so p rov id ing a conven ien t fo rm fo r comput ing and ana lys ing the represen ta t ion .

Splines and multiresolution are two independent concepts, which – considered together – yield a vast variety of bases for image processing and image analysis. The idea of a multiresolution analysis is to construct a ladder of nested spaces that operate as some sort of mathematical looking glass. It allows to separate coarse parts in a signal or in an image from the details of various sizes. Spl...

In a companion paper we characterized the class of scale-invariant convolution operators: the generalized fractional derivatives of order γ. We used these operators to specify regularization functionals for a series of Tikhonov-like least squares data fitting problems and proved that the general solution is a fractional spline of twice the order. We investigated the deterministic properties of ...

A comprehensive scheme is described to construct rational trivariate solid T-splines from boundary triangulations with arbitrary topology. To extract the topology of the input geometry, we first compute a smooth harmonic scalar field defined over the mesh, and saddle points are extracted to determine the topology. By dealing with the saddle points, a polycube whose topology is equivalent to the...