Mesh Cutout

Mingxi ZHAO  Lizhuang MA  Zhou YONG 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E89-D  No.7  pp.2207-2213
Publication Date: 2006/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Machine Vision Applications)
Category: Interactive Systems
Keyword: 
mesh segmentation,  mesh cutout,  graph cuts, 

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Summary: 
Mesh segmentation is a foundational operation for many computer graphics applications. Although various automatic segmentation schemes have been proposed, to precisely obtain the user-needed meaningful part of a mesh is a challenging issue. In this paper, we introduce a novel mesh cutout system to efficiently extract meaningful object from a triangular mesh. The algorithm in the current study extends previous min-cut based image segmentation techniques to the domain of 3D mesh. We provide a novel screen-space user interface that allows the user to indicate the meaningful object easily. The results show that our proposed method is relatively simple and effective as a powerful tool for mesh cutout.