Imesh: An image based quality mesh generation technique, in

Generating triangular meshes from images is a task im-portant to many applications. Usually, techniques that can do that either take as starting point a segmented image or generate a mesh without distinguishing different struc-tures contained in the image. In both cases the results can be satisfactory for a number of applications, but the pre-segmentation and the absence of well defined structures imply in difficulties using the resulting mesh for simula-tions. Furthermore, guarantee of good quality meshes is also a common problem in previous results. In this work we present a new technique for mesh generation that handles these problems well. First, it eliminates the need for pre-processing by building the segmentation into the mesh gen-eration process. Second, the mesh generation process takes into acount the quality of the mesh elements, producing as result meshes of better quality than previous techniques.