A local mesh method for solving PDEs on point clouds

Rongjie Lai; Jiang Liang; Hong-Kai Zhao

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A local mesh method for solving PDEs on point clouds

Rongjie Lai ^1, , Jiang Liang ^2, and Hong-Kai Zhao ^3,

1.	Department of mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2532, United States
2.	Department of mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3875, United States
3.	Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3875

Received October 2012 Revised December 2012 Published September 2013

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In this work, we introduce a numerical method to approximate differential operators and integrals on point clouds sampled from a two dimensional manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Global mesh structure is usually hard to construct in this case. While our method only relies on the local mesh structure at each data point, which is constructed through local triangulation in the tangent space obtained by local principal component analysis (PCA). Once the local mesh is available, we propose numerical schemes to approximate differential operators and define mass matrix and stiffness matrix on point clouds, which are utilized to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) and variational problems on point clouds. As numerical examples, we use the proposed local mesh method and variational formulation to solve the Laplace-Beltrami eigenproblem and solve the Eikonal equation for computing distance map and tracing geodesics on point clouds.

Keywords: Eikonal equation., Point cloud, manifolds, local mesh, Laplace-Beltrami eigenproblem.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 65D18, 65D25, 65D30; Secondary: 68P0.

Citation: Rongjie Lai, Jiang Liang, Hong-Kai Zhao. A local mesh method for solving PDEs on point clouds. Inverse Problems & Imaging, 2013, 7 (3) : 737-755. doi: 10.3934/ipi.2013.7.737

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[3]	G. Chen, A. V. Little, M. Maggioni and L. Rosasco, Some recent advances in multiscale geometric analysis of point clouds,, Wavelets and Multiscale Analysis, (): 199. doi: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8095-4_10. Google Scholar
[4]	M. Belkin, J. Sun and Y. Wang, Constructing laplace operator from point clouds in $\mathbbR^d$, In "Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms," 1031-1040, Philadelphia, PA, (2009). Google Scholar
[5]	C. Luo, J. Sun and Y. Wang, Integral estimation from point cloud in d-dimensional space: A geometric view, In "Symposium on Computational Geometry," (2009), 116-124. doi: 10.1145/1542362.1542389. Google Scholar
[6]	J. Liang, R. Lai, T. W. Wong and H. Zhao, Geometric understanding of point clouds using Laplace-Beltrami operator, CVPR, (2012). Google Scholar
[7]	J. Liang and H. Zhao, Solving partial differential equations on point clouds, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 35 (2013), A1461-A1486. doi: 10.1137/120869730. Google Scholar
[8]	I. Jolliffe, "Principal Component Analysis," Wiley Online Library, 2005. Google Scholar
[9]	G. Taubin, Geometric signal processing on polygonal meshes, EUROGRAPHICS, (2000). Google Scholar
[10]	M. Meyer, M. Desbrun, P. Schröder and A. H. Barr, Discrete differential-geometry operators for triangulated 2-manifolds, Visualization and Mathematics III, 35-57, Math. Vis., Springer, Berlin, (2003). Google Scholar
[11]	M. Desbrun, M. Meyer, P. Schröder and A. H. Barr, Discrete differential geometry operators in nd, In "Proc. VisMath'02 Berlin Germany," (2002). Google Scholar
[12]	Guoliang Xu, Convergent discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator over triangular surfaces, Proceedings of Geometric Modelling and Processing, (2004), 195-204. Google Scholar
[13]	R. Lai and T. F. Chan, A framework for intrinsic image processing on surfaces, UCLA CAM 10-25, submitted, 115 (2011), 1647-1661. doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2011.05.011. Google Scholar
[14]	J. W. Milnor and J. D. Stasherff, "Characteristic Classes," Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J.; University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1974. vii+331 pp. Google Scholar
[15]	J. M. Lee, "Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature," Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 176. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997, xvi+224 pp. Google Scholar
[16]	X. Li, W. Wang, R. R. Martin and A. Bowyer, Using low-discrepancy sequences and the crofton formula to compute surface areas of geometric models, Computer-Aided Design, 35 (2003), 771-782. doi: 10.1016/S0010-4485(02)00100-8. Google Scholar
[17]	J. A. Sethian, A fast marching level set method for monotonically advancing fronts, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 93 (1996), 1591-1595. doi: 10.1073/pnas.93.4.1591. Google Scholar
[18]	R. Kimmel and J. A. Sethian, Computing geodesic paths on manifolds, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95 (1998), 8431-8435. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.15.8431. Google Scholar
[19]	H. Zhao, A fast sweeping method for eikonal equations, Mathematics of Computation, 74 (2005), 603-627. doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01678-3. Google Scholar
[20]	J. Qian, Y. T. Zhang and H. K. Zhao, Fast sweeping methods for eikonal equations on triangular meshes, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 45 (2007), 83-107. doi: 10.1137/050627083. Google Scholar
[21]	K. Uhlenbeck, Generic properties of eigenfunctions, Amer. J. of Math., 98 (1976), 1059-1078. doi: 10.2307/2374041. Google Scholar
[22]	J. Sun, M. Ovsjanikov and L. Guibas, A concise and provabley informative multi-scale signature baded on heat diffusion, In " Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing," (2009), 1383-1392. Google Scholar
[23]	M. M. Bronstein and I. Kokkinos, Scale-invariant heat kernel signatures for non-rigid shape recognition, In "Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)", (2010), 1704-1711. doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2010.5539838. Google Scholar
[24]	Y. Shi, R. Lai, R. Gill, D. Pelletier, D. Mohr, N. Sicotte and A. W. Toga, Conformal metric optimization on surface (CMOS) for deformation and mapping in Laplace-Beltrami embedding space, MICCAI, 14 (2011), 327-334. Google Scholar
[25]	R. Lai, Y. Shi, K. Scheibel, S. Fears, R. Woods, A. W. Toga and T. F. Chan, Metric-induced optimal embedding for intrinsic 3D shape analysis, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), (2010), 2871-2878. Google Scholar
[26]	R. Lai, Y. Shi, N. Sicotte and A. W. Toga, Automated corpus callosum extraction via Laplace-Beltrami nodalâparcellation and intrinsic geodesic curvature flows on surfaces, ICCV, 11 (2011), 2034-2040. Google Scholar
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[28]	J. Jost, "Riemannian Geometry And Geometric Analysis," Springer, 3rd edition, 2001. Google Scholar
[29]	M. Reuter, F. E. Wolter and N. Peinecke, Laplace-Beltrami spectra as shape-DNA of surfaces and solids, Computer-Aided Design, 38 (2006), 342-366. doi: 10.1016/j.cad.2005.10.011. Google Scholar
[30]	J. Brandman, A level-set method for computing the eigenvalues of elliptic operators defined on compact hypersurfaces, Journal of Scientific Computing, 37 (2008), 282-315. doi: 10.1007/s10915-008-9210-z. Google Scholar
[31]	W. Gao, R. Lai, Y. Shi, I. Dinov and A. W. Toga, A narrow-band approach for approximating the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum of 3D shapes, In "AIP Conference Proceedings," 1281 (2010), 1010-1013. doi: 10.1063/1.3497791. Google Scholar
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[33]	S. Dong, P.-T. Bremer, M. Garland, V. Pascucci and J. C. Hart, Spectral surface quadrangulation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, (2006), 1057-1066. Google Scholar
[34]	R. M. Rustamov, Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions for deformation invariant shape representation, Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, (2007), 225-233. Google Scholar
[35]	B. Vallet and B. Lévy, Spectral geometry processing with manifold harmonics, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings Eurographics), 27 (2008), 251-260. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01122.x. Google Scholar
[36]	M. Reuter, Hierarchical shape segmentation and registration via topological features of Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions, International Journal of Computer Vision, 89 (2009), 287-308. doi: 10.1007/s11263-009-0278-1. Google Scholar
[37]	A. M. Bronstein, M. M. Bronstein, R. Kimmel, M. Mahmoudi and G. Sapiro, A gromov-hausdorff framework with diffusion geometry for topologically-robust non-rigid shape matching, Int. Jour. Comput. Vis., 89 (2010), 266-286. doi: 10.1007/s11263-009-0301-6. Google Scholar
[38]	A. Qiu, D. Bitouk and M. I. Miller, Smooth functional and structural maps on the neocortex via orthonormal bases of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 25 (2006), 1296-1306. Google Scholar
[39]	Y. Shi, R. Lai, S. Krishna, N. Sicotte, I. Dinov and A. W. Toga, Anisotropic Laplace-Beltrami eigenmaps: Bridging reeb graphs and skeletons, In "Proc. MMBIA," (2008). Google Scholar
[40]	Y. Shi, R. Lai, K. Kern, N. Sicotte, I. Dinov and A. W. Toga, Harmonic surface mapping with Laplace-Beltrami eigenmaps, In "Proc. MICCAI," (2008), 147-154. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85990-1_18. Google Scholar
[41]	R. Lai, Y. Shi, I. Dinov, T. F. Chan and A. W. Toga, Laplace-Beltrami nodal counts: A new signature for 3D shape analysis, In "Proc. ISBI," (2009), 694-697. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193142. Google Scholar
[42]	Y. Shi, I. Dinov and A. W. Toga, Cortical shape analysis in the Laplace-Beltrami feature space, In "Proc. MICCAI," (2009), 208-215. Google Scholar
[43]	Y. Shi, R. Lai, J. Morra, I. Dinov, P. Thompson and A. W. Toga, Robust surface reconstruction via Laplace-Beltrami eigen-projection and boundary deformation, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, 29 (2010), 2009-2022. Google Scholar
[44]	Y. Shi, R. Lai and A. Toga, Unified geometry and topology correction for cortical surface reconstruction with intrinsic reeb analysis, MICCAI, (2012), 601-8. Google Scholar
[45]	F. Mémoli and G. Sapiro, Distance functions and geodesics on submanifolds of rd and point clouds, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, (2005), 1227-1260. Google Scholar
[46]	M. De Berg, O. Cheong, M. Van Kreveld and M. Overmars, "Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications," Third edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008. Google Scholar

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