Shape Analysis and Structuring
Several techniques have been developed in the literature for processing different aspects of the geometry of shapes, for representing and manipulating a shape at different levels of detail, and for describing a shape at a structural level as a concise, pa
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Leila De Floriani Michela Spagnuolo Editors
Shape Analysis and Structuring With 156 Figures, 29 in Color and 7 Tables
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Leila De Floriani
Michela Spagnuolo
Department of Computer and Information Sciences (DISI) University of Genova Via Dodecaneso, 35 16146 Genova, Italy defl[email protected]
Istituto per la Matematica Applicata e le Tecnologie Informatiche Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via De Marini, 6 16149 Genova, Italy [email protected]
and Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD 20740, USA
ISBN 978-3-540-33264-0
e-ISBN 978-3-540-33265-7
Springer Series in Mathematics and Visualization ISSN 1612-3786 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007935447 Mathematics Subject Classification Numbers (2000): 68U05, 68U07, 65D18, 65D17 c 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover image: Gershon Elber, TECHNION, Israel Cover design: WMX Design GmbH. Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
1 Introduction The idea of composing this book arose from the desire to enrich and systematise the extensive state-of-the-art studies that were carried out within the framework of AIM@SHAPE, a Network of Excellence funded by European Commission under the FP6-IST 1 . The main goal of the network is to develop new methodologies for modelling and processing knowledge embedded in digital shapes. Current approaches to modelling are focused on the geometry of shapes, while their semantics, e.g., meaning or functionality in a given context, is still overlooked. This is partly due to the lack of methods for the automatic extraction of the semantic content from digital shapes, known as the process of semantic annotation in research areas related to the development of the Semantic Web, and partly to the evolution of research on shape modelling which in the past years was highly focused on the geometric aspects of shapes. The shift from a purely geometric to a semanticaware level of representation of digital shapes is the ultimate scientific objective of AIM@SHAPE. In this scenario, a crucial role is played by geometry processing methods that are aimed to preserve and enhance shape information as well as to effectively capture the s
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