Publications by Daniel Andreas Schmitter

System and method for performing isogeometric analysis and finite element analysis using h-splines

Michaël Unser, Zsuzsanna Püspöki, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

A method for performing H-spline compatible isogeometric analysis (IGA) on a geometric object, the method being performed on a computer device having a memory, the method including the steps of creating an analysis suitable geometry (ASG) using H-splines f ...

2019

Method and system for the creation of an h-spline based data structure, data storage, and data representation

Michaël Unser, Zsuzsanna Püspöki, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

A method for generating a data structure to digitally represent a geometrical object based on H-splines, the method being performed on a computer device having a data processor and memory, the method including the steps of creating a first data structure a ...

2019

Landmark-Based Shape Encoding and Sparse-Dictionary Learning in the Continuous Domain

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

We provide a generic framework to learn shape dictionaries of landmark-based curves that are defined in the continuous domain. We first present an unbiased alignment method that involves the construction of a mean shape as well as training sets whose eleme ...

2018

Smooth Shapes with Spherical Topology: Beyond Traditional Modeling, Efficient Deformation, and Interaction

Michaël Unser, Pablo Garcia-Amorena Garcia, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

Existing shape models with spherical topology are typically designed either in the discrete domain using interpolating polygon meshes or in the continuous domain using smooth but non-interpolating schemes such as subdivision or NURBS. Both polygon models a ...

2017

Multiresolution Subdivision Snakes

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

We present a new family of snakes that satisfy the property of multiresolution by exploiting subdivision schemes. We show in a generic way how to construct such snakes based on an admissible subdivision mask. We derive the necessary energy formulations and ...

2017

General Surface Energy for Spinal Cord and Aorta Segmentation

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann, Harshit Gupta

We present a new surface energy potential for the segmentation of cylindrical objects in 3D medical imaging using parametric spline active contours (a.k.a. spline-snakes). Our energy formulation is based on an optimal steerable surface detector. Thus, we c ...

IEEE2017

Compactly-Supported Smooth Interpolators for Shape Modeling with Varying Resolution

Michaël Unser, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Pablo Garcia-Amorena Garcia, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

In applications that involve interactive curve and surface modeling, the intuitive manipulation of shapes is crucial. For instance, user interaction is facilitated if a geometrical object can be manipulated through control points that interpolate the shape ...

2017

Shape Projectors for Landmark-Based Spline Curves

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

We present a generic method to construct orthogonal projectors for two-dimensional landmark-based parametric spline curves. We construct vector spaces that define a geometric transformation (e.g., affine, similarity, and scaling) that is applied to a refer ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Closed-Form Alignment of Active Surface Models Using Splines

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter

We propose a new formulation of the active surface model in 3D. Instead of aligning a shape dictionary through the similarity transform, we consider more flexible affine transformations and introduce an alignment method that is unbiased in the sense that i ...

IEEE2017

A Non-Stationary Subdivision Scheme for the Construction of Deformable Models with Sphere-Like Topology

Michaël Unser, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

We present an affine-invariant non-stationary subdivision scheme for the recursive refinement of any triangular mesh that is regular or has extraordinary vertices of valence 4. In particular, when applied to an arbitrary convex octahedron, it produces a $ ...

2017