Nonasymptotic densities for shape reconstruction

TL;DR

This paper investigates the problem of shape reconstruction using nonasymptotic densities, specifically the integral area invariant, and establishes uniqueness results for polygons and smooth curves with limited radius information.

Contribution

It provides new uniqueness results for reconstructing shapes from the area invariant and its derivatives at a single radius, under certain regularity conditions.

Findings

Uniqueness of shape reconstruction from the area invariant for polygons.

Uniqueness results for smooth curves under specific conditions.

Analysis of reconstruction limitations with limited radius data.

Abstract

In this work, we study the problem of reconstructing shapes from simple nonasymptotic densities measured only along shape boundaries. The particular density we study is also known as the integral area invariant and corresponds to the area of a disk centered on the boundary that is also inside the shape. It is easy to show uniqueness when these densities are known for all radii in a neighborhood of r = 0, but much less straightforward when we assume that we only know the area invariant and its derivatives for only one r > 0. We present variations of uniqueness results for reconstruction (modulo translation and rotation) of polygons and (a dense set of) smooth curves under certain regularity conditions.