Surface trees  Representation of boundary surfaces using a tree descriptor ?
Surface trees are presented as a new method to represent discrete surfaces. This new 3D descriptor is coded as a chain using an alphabet of eleven symbols. Morphological transformation to the surface are made as simple grammatical techniques. Surface trees description offers a set of properties that allow data analysis. A compact lossless representation of surfaces is a direct contribution of this work.
surface trees boundary surface discrete surfaces 3d descriptor surface representation 3d representation chain code compression methods