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A PRIMAL-DUAL LEVEL SET METHOD FOR COMPUTING GEODESIC DISTANCES

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刘海亮 (Hailiang Liu) *
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Laura Zinnel
DOI:10.1137/24M1721086delete
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Abstract

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The numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on surfaces, along with the associated geodesic distance, has a wide range of applications. Compared to Euclidean distance computation, these tasks are more complex due to the influence of surface geometry on the behavior of shortest paths. This paper introduces a primal-dual level set method for computing geodesic distances. A key insight is that the underlying surface can be implicitly represented as a zero level set, allowing us to formulate a constraint minimization problem. We employ the primal-dual methodology, along with regularization and acceleration techniques, to develop our algorithm. This approach is robust, efficient, and easy to implement. We establish a convergence result for the high resolution PDE system, and numerical evidence suggests that the method converges to a geodesic in the limit of refinement.
Keywords:
geodesic
primal-dual
level set
convergence

Journal

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis cover
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
IF:
2.9
Papers:
29
Citations:
1.5W

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Iowa State University
Scholars:
2.1W
Papers: 1.8W
Citations: 2.5W