Abstract
We present a method for 3D mesh segmentation based on sparse non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). Image analysis techniques based on NMF have been shown to decompose images into semantically meaningful local features. Since the features and coefficients are represented in terms of non-negative values, the features contribute to the resulting images in an intuitive, additive fashion. Like spectral mesh segmentation, our method relies on the construction of an affinity matrix which depends on the geometric properties of the mesh. We show that segmentation based on the NMF is simpler to implement, and can result in more meaningful segmentation results than spectral mesh segmentation.
Keywords
segmentation; clustering; mesh processing; sparse approximation; non- negative matrix factorization
Date of this Version
2016
Comments
This is the AAM version of McGraw, T., Kang, J., Herring, D., Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Mesh Segmentation, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2016. Copyright World Scientific Publishing, the version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219467816500042.