Descriptor Preservation through functional maps in order to
preserve extracted feature points
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1. Computing matrix M from extracted feature points.
2. Descriptor preservation: if the point descriptors are multidimensional so that f(x) ∈ R k for each
x then k scalar function preservation constraints can be computed, one for each dimension of
the descriptor.
3. Projection of feature points on mesh M through Laplace operator resulting mesh M’ (V’,E)
Algorithm
• Input: mesh M = (V,F), Output:
simplified mesh
• for edge e ∈ M do add (e,m(e)) to
queue ;
• while V’ > N and queue not empty
do (e, c) ← pop edge e with lowest
cost c from queue ;
• collapse e (for n ∈ e’s neighbors
do update n in queue ;