Convergent Authalic Energy Minimization for Disk Area-Preserving Parameterizations

Abstract: An area-preserving parameterization is a bijective mapping that maps a surface onto a specified domain and preserves the local area. This paper formulates the computation of disk area-preserving parameterization as an authalic energy minimization (AEM) problem and proposes a novel preconditioned nonlinear conjugate gradient method for the AEM with guaranteed theoretical convergence. Numerical experiments indicate that our new approach has significantly improved area-preserving accuracy and computational efficiency compared to another state-of-the-art algorithm. Furthermore, we present an application of surface registration to illustrate the practical utility of area-preserving mappings as parameterizations of surfaces.