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Enrico Puppo
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2020
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Informatics Engineering
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Numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on curved domains, as well as the associated geodesic distance, arises in a broad range of applications across digital geometry processing, scientific computing, computer graphics, and computer vision. Relative to Euclidean distance computation, these tasks are complicated by the influence of curvature on the behavior of shortest paths, as well as the fact that the representation of the domain may itself be approximate. In spite of the difficulty of this problem, recent literature has developed a wide variety of sophisticated methods that enable rapid queries of geodesic information, even on relatively large models. This survey reviews the major categories of approaches to the computation of geodesic paths and distances, highlighting common themes and opportunities for future improvement.
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