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[Project image] A Computational Model for Repeated Pattern Perception using Crystallographic Groups
Head: Yanxi Liu
Contact: Yanxi Liu (yanxi@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Computational Symmetry

This page last updated - February 2007.
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Project Description

What do you see when you look at a regularly textured surface? Do you see tiles or do you see structures? We are developing a computational model for repeated pattern perception that is able to automatically classify a given pattern into one of the 7 frieze groups (patterns repeating along one direction), or one of the 17 wallpaper groups (patterns repeating along two linearly independent directions), or one of the 230 space groups (patterns repeating in 3D Euclidean space). It can also automatically generate a finite set of possible tiles (based on our theoretical proofs). Furthermore, we study repeated patterns under different viewing directions to find out what happens to a periodic pattern when it is deformed by Affine or perspective transformations. We are also exploring texture replacement in real images and texture synthesis.

This project is funded by NSF grant No. IIS-0099597

Personnel [Past Members]

Name Title Email Address
Yanxi's personal homepage Yanxi Liu Adjunct Associate Research Professor yanxi@cs.cmu.edu

Recent publications [View all 11 publications]


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