A compilation on Medial Axis/Skeleton and its applications, comprising academic papers, as well as some valuable open-source projects.
The focus is primarily on three-dimensional graphics, particularly work related to CAD geometric processing.
I will divide these works into two categories: Computation Methods and Applications.
The Computation Methods will be classified by their publication years, while the Applications will be categorized by their application scenarios.
😊 I will update it regularly.
- Pengfei Wang, Jiantao Song, Lei Wang, Shiqing Xin, Dong-Ming Yan, Shuangmin Chen, Changhe Tu, Wenping Wang. "Towards Voronoi Diagrams of Surface Patches".
- TVCG 2025
- [Paper]
- Ningna Wang, Hui Huang, Shibo Song, Bin Wang, Wenping Wang, Xiaohu Guo. "MATTopo: Topology-preserving Medial Axis Transform with Restricted Power Diagram".
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Minghao Guo, Bohan Wang, Wojciech Matusik. "Medial Skeletal Diagram: A Generalized Medial Axis Approach for 3D Shape Representation".
- TOG 2024
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Dmitry Petrov, Pradyumn Goyal, Vikas Thamizharasan, Vladimir G. Kim, Matheus Gadelha, Melinos Averkiou, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Evangelos Kalogerakis. "GEM3D: Generative Medial Abstractions for 3D Shape Synthesis".
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Qijia Huang, Pierre Kraemer, Sylvain Thery, Dominique Bechmann. "Dynamic Skeletonization Via Variational Medial Axis Sampling".
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Conference Proceedings
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Zimeng Wang, Zhiyang Dou, Rui Xu, Cheng Lin, Yuan Liu, Xiaoxiao Long, Shiqing Xin, Lingjie Liu, Taku Komura, Xiaoming Yuan, Wenping Wang. "Coverage Axis++: Efficient Inner Point Selection for 3D Shape Skeletonization".
- SGP 2024
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Mengyuan Ge, Junfeng Yao, Baorong Yang, Ningna Wang, Zhonggui Chen, Xiaohu Guo. "Point2MM: Learning medial mesh from point clouds".
- C&G 2023
- [Paper]
- Ningna Wang, Bin Wang, Wenping Wang, Xiaohu Guo. "Computing Medial Axis Transform with Feature Preservation via Restricted Power Diagram".
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Zhiyang Dou, Cheng Lin, Rui Xu, Lei Yang, Shiqing Xin, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang. "Coverage Axis: Inner Point Selection for 3D Shape Skeletonization".
- EG 2022
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Yajie Yan, David Letscher, Tao Ju. "Voxel Cores: Efficient, robust, and provably good approximation of 3D medial axes".
- SIGGRAPH 2018
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Yajie Yan, Kyle Sykes, Erin Chambers, David Letscher, Tao Ju. "Erosion Thickness on Medial Axes of 3D Shapes".
- SIGGRAPH 2016
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Pan Li, Bin Wang, Feng Sun, Xiaohu Guo, Caiming Zhang, Wenping Wang. "Q-MAT: Computing Medial Axis Transform by Quadratic Error Minimization".
- TOG 2015
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Jaehwan Ma, Sang Won Bae, Sunghee Choi. "3D medial axis point approximation using nearest neighbors and the normal field".
- TVC 2012
- [Paper][Code(by tudelft3d)]
- Andrea Tagliasacchi, Ibraheem Alhashim, Matt Olson, Hao Zhang. "Mean Curvature Skeletons".
- SGP 2012
- [Paper][Code][CGAL Document]
- Sheng Zhang, Gang Xu, Haiyan Wu, Renshu Gu, Long Qi, Yufei Pang. "Medial hex‑meshing: high‑quality all‑hexahedral mesh generation based on medial mesh".
- Paul Viville, Pierre Kraemer and Dominique Bechmann. "Meso-Skeleton Guided Hexahedral Mesh Design".
- Marco Livesu, Alessandro Muntoni, Enrico Puppo, Riccardo Scateni. "Skeleton-driven Adaptive Hexahedral Meshing of Tubular Shape".
- CGF 2016
- [Paper]
- Nina Amenta, SungheeChoi Ravi, Krishna Kolluri. "The Power Crust".
- ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling 2001
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Francesco Usai, Marco Livesu, Enrico Puppo, Marco Tarini, Riccardo Scateni. "Extraction of the Quad Layout of a Triangle Mesh Guided by its Curve-Skeleton".
- TOG 2015
- [Paper][Project Page]
- Cheng Lin, Lingjie Liu, Changjian Li, Leif Kobbelt, Bin Wang, Shiqing Xin, Wenping Wang. "SEG-MAT: 3D Shape Segmentation Using Medial Axis Transform".
- TVCG 2020
- [Paper][Project Page][Code]
- Xingxin Li, Shibo Song, Junfeng Yao, Hanyin Zhang, Rongzhou Zhou, Qingqi Hong. "Efficient collision detection using hybrid medial axis transform and BVH for rigid body simulation".
- GM 2023
- [Paper]