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Medial Spheres for Shape Representation - CIM - McGill University

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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii<br />

ABSTRACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv<br />

ABRÉGÉ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v<br />

LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii<br />

LIST OF FIGURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii<br />

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1 <strong>Shape</strong> <strong>Representation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1.1 Parametric/Boundary <strong>Representation</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.1.2 Implicit/Interior <strong>Representation</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.2 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

1.2.1 <strong>Medial</strong> Surface Trans<strong>for</strong>m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

1.2.2 Space Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

1.3 Thesis Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

1.3.1 Objective and Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

1.3.2 List of Novel Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

1.3.3 Publications Arising from This Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

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