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The Square Root Normal Field Distance and Unbalanced Optimal Transport
Martin Bauer, Emmanuel Hartman, Eric Klassen
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This paper explores a novel connection between two areas: shape analysis of surfaces and unbalanced optimal transport. Specifically, we characterize the square root normal field (SRNF) shape distance as the pullback of the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) unbalanced optimal transport distance. In addition, we propose a new algorithm for computing the WFR distance and present numerical results that highlight the effectiveness of this algorithm. As a consequence of our results we obtain a precise method for computing the SRNF shape distance directly on piecewise linear surfaces and gain new insights about the degeneracy of this distance.
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