Skeleton-guided 3D shape distance field metamorphosis

We introduce an automatic 3D shape morphing method without the need of manually placing anchor correspondence points. Given a source and a target shape, we extract their skeletons and automatically estimate the meaningful anchor points based on their skeleton node correspondences. Based on the anchors, dense correspondences between the interior of source and target shape can be established using earth mover’s distance (EMD) optimization. Skeleton node correspondence, estimated with a voting-based method, leads to part correspondence which can be used to confine the dense correspondence within matched part pairs. This produces smooth and plausible morphing sequence based on distance field interpolation (DFI). We demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm over shapes with large geometric variation and structural difference.

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