1Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes Consistent approximation of geodesics in graphs

Consistent approximation of geodesics in graphs

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Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapesStanford University, Winter 2009

2Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes Consistent approximation of geodesics in graphs

Troubles with the metric

Inconsistent Consistent

Geodesic approximation consistency depends on the graph

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Consistent metric approximation

Find a bound of the form

Sampling qualityGraph connectivitySurface properties

where , depend on

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Main idea

Sampling

Connectivity graph

Geodesic metric

Length metric

Sampled metric

Main idea: show

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Sampling conditions

Proposition 1 (Bernstein et al. 2000)

Let and . Suppose

-neighborhood connectivity

is a -covering

Then

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Sketch of the proof

is straightforward

Let be the geodesic between and of length

Divide the geodesic into segments of length at points

Due to sampling density, there exist at most -distant from

By triangle inequality hence

The length of the path

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Surface properties

Minimum curvature radius

Minimum branch separation:

8Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes Consistent approximation of geodesics in graphs

Surface properties

Proposition 2 (Bernstein et al. 2000)

Let . Suppose

Then

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Sufficient conditions for consistency

Theorem (Bernstein et al. 2000)

Let , and . Suppose

Connectivity

is a -covering

The length of edges is bounded

Then

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Proof

Since , condition

implies

Then, we have:

(straightforward)

(Proposition 1)

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Proof (cont)

Let be the shortest

graph path between and

Condition

allows to apply Proposition 2 for each of the path segments

which gives

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Why both conditions are important?

Insufficient density Too long edges

13Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes Consistent approximation of geodesics in graphs

Probabilistic version

Suppose the sampling is chosen randomly with density function

Given , for sufficiently large

holds with probability at least