Elastic Shape Analysis of Three-Dimensional Objects
- Computer Vision
- Categories:Computers & Internet
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:September,2017
- Pages:185
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Description
We develop a comprehensive framework for analyzing shapes of spherical objects, i.e., objects that are embeddings of a unit sphere in R, including tools for: quantifying shape differences, optimally deforming shapes into each other, summarizing shape samples, extracting principal modes of shape variability, and modeling shape variability associated with populations. An important strength of this framework is that it is elastic: it performs alignment, registration, and comparison in a single unified framework, while being invariant to shape-preserving transformations.
The approach is essentially Riemannian in the following sense. We specify natural mathematical representations of surfaces of interest, and impose Riemannian metrics that are invariant to the actions of the shape-preserving transformations. In particular, they are invariant to reparameterizations of surfaces. While these metrics are too complicated to allow broad usage in practical applications, we introduce a novel representation, termed square-root normal fields (SRNFs), that transform a particular invariant elastic metric into the standard L2 metric. As a result, one can use standard techniques from functional data analysis for registering, comparing, and summarizing shapes. Specifically, this results in: pairwise registration of surfaces; computation of geodesic paths encoding optimal deformations; computation of Karcher means and covariances under the shape metric; tangent Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and extraction of dominant modes of variability; and finally, modeling of shape variability using wrapped normal densities.
These ideas are demonstrated using two case studies: the analysis of surfaces denoting human bodies in terms of shape and pose variability; and the clustering and classification of the shapes of subcortical brain structures for use in medical diagnosis.
This book develops these ideas without assuming advanced knowledge in differential geometry and statistics. We summarize some basic tools from differential geometry in the appendices, and introduce additional concepts and terminology as needed in the individual chapters.
Author
Ian H. Jermyn received a B.A. Honours degree (First Class) in Physics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester, UK. After working as a postdoc at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, he studied for and received a Ph.D. in Computer Vision from the Computer Science department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He then joined the Ariana research group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a Senior Research Scientist. Since September 2010, he has been Associate Professor (Reader) in Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University. His research concerns statistical geometry: the statistical modeling of shape and geometric structure, particularly using random fields with complex interactions and Riemannian geometry. This work is motivated by problems of shape and texture modelling in image processing, computer vision, and computer graphics. Using a Bayesian approach, it has been extensively applied to different types of images, including biological and remote sensing imagery. He is also interested in information geometry as applied to inference.
Sebastian Kurtek, The Ohio State University
Sebastian Kurtek is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University, which he joined in 2012. He received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Tulane University in 2007, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biostatistics from Florida State University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. His main research interests include statistical shape analysis, functional data analysis, statistical image analysis, statistics on manifolds, medical imaging, and computational statistics. In particular, he is interested in the interplay between statistics and Riemannian geometry, and their role in developing solutions to various applied problems. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the IEEE.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Problem Introduction and Motivation
Elastic Shape Analysis: Metrics and Representations
Computing Geometrical Quantities
Statistical Analysis of Shapes
Case Studies Using Human Body and Anatomical Shapes
Landmark-driven Elastic Shape Analysis
Bibliography
Authors' Biographies