Elastic Correspondence between Triangle Meshes

Danielle Ezuz, Behrend Heeren, Omri Azencot, Martin Rumpf and Mirela Ben-Chen. EUROGRAPHICS 2019 / Computer Graphics Forum. Abstract We propose a novel approach for shape matching between triangular meshes that, in contrast to existing methods, can match crease features. Our approach is based on a hybrid optimization scheme, that solves simultaneously for an elastic deformation of the source and its projection on the target. The elastic energy we minimize is invariant to rigid body motions, and its non-linear membrane energy component favors locally injective maps. Symmetrizing this model enables feature aligned correspondences even for non-isometric meshes. We demonstrate the advantage…