On Reliable Estimation of Curvatures of Implicit Surfaces

Abstract

Estimation of curvature in volumetric datasets is considered. One component of the exhibition here is new extensions of several known methods for such estimations in range images to the new domain of volumetric datasets. A second component is that the (1) accuracy and (2) computational performance of these extensions (and five well-known existing methods for curvature estimation in volumetric datasets) are comparatively examined.