An adaptive learning approach for 3-D surface reconstruction from point clouds.

In this paper, we propose a multiresolution approach for surface reconstruction from clouds of unorganized points representing an object surface in 3-D space. The proposed method uses a set of mesh operators and simple rules for selective mesh refinement, with a strategy based on Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM). Basically, a self-adaptive scheme is used for iteratively moving vertices of an initial simple mesh in the direction of the set of points, ideally the object boundary. Successive refinement and motion of vertices are applied leading to a more detailed surface, in a multiresolution, iterative scheme. Reconstruction was experimented on with several point sets, including different shapes and sizes. Results show generated meshes very close to object final shapes. We include measures of performance and discuss robustness.     

Surface Reconstruction based on Lower Dimensional Localized Delaunay Triangulation

We present a fast, memory efficient algorithm that generates a manifold triangular mesh S passing through a set of unorganized points P R ³. Nothing is assumed about the geometry, topology or presence of boundaries in the data set except that P is sampled from a real manifold surface. The speed of our algorithm is derived from a projection-based approach we use to determine the incident faces on a point. We define our sampling criteria to sample the surface and guarantee a topologically correct mesh after surface reconstruction for such a sampled surface. We also present a new algorithm to find the normal at a vertex, when the surface is sampled according our given criteria. We also present results of our surface reconstruction using our algorithm on unorganized point clouds of various models.     

Multi-Level Partition of Unity Algebraic Point Set Surfaces

We present a multi-level partition of unity algebraic set surfaces (MPU-APSS) for surface reconstruction which can be represented by either a projection or in an implicit form. An algebraic point set surface (APSS) defines a smooth surface from a set of unorganized points using local moving least-squares (MLS) fitting of algebraic spheres. However, due to the local nature, APSS does not work well for geometry editing and modeling. Instead, our method builds an implicit approximation function for the scattered point set based on the partition of unity approach. By using an octree subdivision strategy, we first adaptively construct local algebraic spheres for the point set, and then apply weighting functions to blend together these local shape functions. Finally, we compute an error-controlled approximation of the signed distance function from the surface. In addition, we present an efficient projection operator which makes our representation suitable for point set filtering and dynamic point resampling. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our unified approach for both surface reconstruction and geometry modeling such as surface completion.     

散乱点的快速曲面重建方法

空间散乱点的曲面重建有着广泛的应用前景，是当前国际上的研究热点之一，Crust算法是一种基于计算几何中的Voronoi周期图的曲面重建算法，它算法简单，重建结果精细，但是由于计算量太大，其应用受到了限制，为此提出了一种依据采样点的局部特征尺度对原始采样集进行不均匀降采样的方法，在保证采样集能够满足重建要求的前提下，使参与重建的表面点数大为降低，减少了重建算法的计算量，从而提高了重建的速度，这一方法还可以应用于网络简化，通过剔除某些顶点达到简化之目的。     

Evolution of T-spline level sets for meshing non-uniformly sampled and incomplete data

Given a large set of unorganized point sample data, we propose a new framework for computing a triangular mesh representing an approximating piecewise smooth surface. The data may be non-uniformly distributed, noisy, and may contain holes. This framework is based on the combination of two types of surface representations, triangular meshes and T-spline level sets, which are implicit surfaces defined by refinable spline functions allowing T-junctions. Our method contains three main steps. Firstly, we construct an implicit representation of a smooth (C ² in our case) surface, by using an evolution process of T-spline level sets, such that the implicit surface captures the topology and outline of the object to be reconstructed. The initial mesh with high quality is obtained through the marching triangulation of the implicit surface. Secondly, we project each data point to the initial mesh, and get a scalar displacement field. Detailed features will be captured by the displaced mesh. Finally, we present an additional evolution process, which combines data-driven velocities and feature-preserving bilateral filters, in order to reproduce sharp features. We also show that various shape constraints, such as distance field constraints, range constraints and volume constraints can be naturally added to our framework, which is helpful to obtain a desired reconstruction result, especially when the given data contains noise and inaccuracies.     

基于边界检测的三维散乱点快速曲面重建算法

针对Power Crust算法提出一种带边界检测的不均匀降采样算法。曲面重建前先通过该算法减少参与运算的采样点,表面特征丰富的区域削减的采样点数远小于特征不丰富的区域,再进行曲面重建。通过实例表明该算法大大加快了散乱点数据的重建速度,而且很好地保持了模型表面的特征,能够较为真实地重建出曲面模型。     

Fitting Sharp Features with Loop Subdivision Surfaces

Various methods have been proposed for fitting subdivision surfaces to different forms of shape data (e.g., dense meshes or point clouds), but none of these methods effectively deals with shapes with sharp features, that is, creases, darts and corners. We present an effective method for fitting a Loop subdivision surface to a dense triangle mesh with sharp features. Our contribution is a new exact evaluation scheme for the Loop subdivision with all types of sharp features, which enables us to compute a fitting Loop subdivision surface for shapes with sharp features in an optimization framework. With an initial control mesh obtained from simplifying the input dense mesh using QEM, our fitting algorithm employs an iterative method to solve a nonlinear least squares problem based on the squared distances from the input mesh vertices to the fitting subdivision surface. This optimization framework depends critically on the ability to express these distances as quadratic functions of control mesh vertices using our exact evaluation scheme near sharp features. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.     

一个利用法矢的散乱点三角剖分算法

曲面上散乱点的三角剖分在曲面重建中发挥着重要作用,借助于曲面上的法矢信息和三维Delaunay三角剖分算法,该文给出了一种新的散乱点三角剖分算法,输入一组散乱点以及所在曲面S在这些散乱点处的一致定向的法矢信息,该算法将产生一张插值散乱点的三角网格曲面M,并且曲面M可以近似地看成是曲面S的三角剖分,算法的主要步骤分为两步：首先通过曲面S的一致定向的法矢信息,在曲面S的同一侧添加辅助点,利用这些辅助点来剔除Delaunay三角剖分中产生的不需要的三角片;然后将剩余的三角片连接成一张完整的网格曲面,与基于中轴的三角剖分算法相比,该文算法需要更少和更简单的计算,与局部三角剖分算法相比,该文算法可以更有效地避免重建后的曲面产生自交,该文的算法可用于任意拓扑的光滑曲面重建。     

基于快速Delaunay三角化的散乱点曲面重建算法

针对现有三维重建算法速度较慢的问题,提出了一种基于快速Delaunay三角化的散乱数据点的三维重建算法。首先,提出一种新的平面Delaunay三角化插入点目标三角形定位算法,利用插入点的方向搜索线与三角形是否相交以及交点个数加速目标三角形定位,不用额外判断点是否在三角形内;其次,自动检测曲面漏洞,利用凸壳的边界拼接方法进行漏洞弥补。实验结果表明,本算法不仅能较好地重建出三维模型,而且有较高的效率。     

散乱点云的快速增量网格重建算法

散乱数据的网格重建是数字几何处理的基础性技术之一.本文提出一种快速增量式散乱点云网格重建算法,运用波前( Wave Front)方法渐进地由点云数据生成物体表面的网格模型.该算法以一个”种子”三角形初始化搜索队列,以逐渐生成的新边为搜索元素,借助Kd-树空间划分技术和搜索约束条件,快速完成优化点的评估及三角面片重建,可在保证网格质量的同时,过滤部分对重建效果意义不大的点.实验表明,该算法能够高效、可靠地生成具有不同几何复杂度的原始曲面二维流形三角网格逼近,适用于海量数据点的网格重建.     

Feature‐Preserving Surface Reconstruction From Unoriented,Noisy Point Data

We propose a robust method for surface mesh reconstruction from unorganized, unoriented, noisy and outlier‐ridden 3D point data. A kernel‐based scale estimator is introduced to estimate the scale of inliers of the input data. The best tangent planes are computed for all points based on mean shift clustering and adaptive scale sample consensus, followed by detecting and removing outliers. Subsequently, we estimate the normals for the remaining points and smooth the noise using a surface fitting and projection strategy. As a result, the outliers and noise are removed and filtered, while the original sharp features are well preserved. We then adopt an existing method to reconstruct surface meshes from the processed point data. To preserve sharp features of the generated meshes that are often blurred during reconstruction, we describe a two‐step approach to effectively recover original sharp features. A number of examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our method.     

散乱数据点的细分曲面重建算法及实现

提出一种对海量散乱数据根据给定精度拟合出无需裁剪和拼接的、反映细节特征的、分片光滑的细分曲面算法．该算法的核心是基于细分的局部特性，通过对有特征的细分控制网格极限位置分析，按照拟合曲面与数据点的距离误差最小原则，对细分曲面控制网格循环进行调整、优化、特征识别、白适应细分等过程，使得细分曲面不断地逼近原始数据．实例表明：该算法不仅具有高效性、稳定性，同时构造出的细分曲面还较好地反映了原始数据的细节特征。     

Variational reconstruction using subdivision surfaces with continuous sharpness control

Computational Visual Media - We present a variational method for subdivision surface reconstruction from a noisy dense mesh. A new set of subdivision rules with continuous sharpness control is...     

Composite freeform surface reconstruction using recursive interpolating subdivision scheme

Composite freeform surface reconstruction from 3D scanned data of a physical model has become a more and more important topic in the field of CAD/CAE/CAM. By repeated application of a fixed set of recursive interpolation subdivision schemes on the initial mesh of the 3D sparse scanned data of a physical model, a polygonal model of composite freeform surface can be constructed. In the paper, the algorithm for constructing the initial triangular mesh from 3D sparse scanned data is presented. The unified recursive interpolating subdivision scheme for triangular mesh is proposed. A special quad-tree data structure is suggested to store all the necessary information of the vertices and elements of the polygonal model. Examples of composite surface reconstruction are provided to explain the distinguished superiority of subdivision scheme for reconstructing the arbitrary topological complex surface.     

Implicit and Nonparametric Shape Reconstruction from Unorganized Data Using a Variational Level Set Method

In this paper we consider a fundamental visualization problem: shape reconstruction from an unorganized data set. A new minimal-surface-like model and its variational and partial differential equation (PDE) formulation are introduced. In our formulation only distance to the data set is used as our input. Moreover, the distance is computed with optimal speed using a new numerical PDE algorithm. The data set can include points, curves, and surface patches. Our model has a natural scaling in the nonlinear regularization that allows flexibility close to the data set while it also minimizes oscillations between data points. To find the final shape, we continuously deform an initial surface following the gradient flow of our energy functional. An offset (an exterior contour) of the distance function to the data set is used as our initial surface. We have developed a new and efficient algorithm to find this initial surface. We use the level set method in our numerical computation in order to capture the deformation of the initial surface and to find an implicit representation (using the signed distance function) of the final shape on a fixed rectangular grid. Our variational/PDE approach using the level set method allows us to handle complicated topologies and noisy or highly nonuniform data sets quite easily. The constructed shape is smoother than any piecewise linear reconstruction. Moreover, our approach is easily scalable for different resolutions and works in any number of space dimensions.     

基于SOM网络的三次B样条曲线重建

使用散乱点集重建曲线曲面,在逆向工程和计算机视觉中有着广泛的应用。提出基于SOM网络的三次B样条曲线重建算法。给定某一曲线散乱点集和一初始神经网络,优化SOM网络中神经元位置,使网络逼近散乱点和映射散乱点空间特征。用特征点反求三次B样条曲线控制点,利用控制点重建三次B样条曲线。试验结果表明,算法取得的曲线重建效果良好。     

Implicit simplicial models for adaptive curve reconstruction

Parametric deformable models have been extensively and very successfully used for reconstructing free-form curves and surfaces, and for tracking nonrigid deformations, but they require previous knowledge of the topological type of the data, and good initial curve or surface estimates. With deformable models, it is also computationally expensive to check for and to prevent self-intersections while tracking deformations. The implicit simplicial models that we introduce in this paper are implicit curves and surfaces defined by piecewise linear functions. This representation allows for local deformations, control of the topological type, and prevention of self-intersections during deformations. As a first application, we also describe an algorithm for 2D curve reconstruction from unorganized sets of data points. The topology, the number of connected components, and the geometry of the data are all estimated using an adaptive space subdivision approach. The main four components of the algorithm are topology estimation, curve fitting, adaptive space subdivision, and mesh relaxation     

On surface reconstruction: A priority driven approach

To reconstruct an object surface from a set of surface points, a fast, practical, and efficient priority driven algorithm is presented. The key idea of the method is to consider the shape changes of an object at the boundary of the mesh growing area and to create a priority queue to the advancing front of the mesh area according to the changes. The mesh growing process is then driven by the priority queue for efficient surface reconstruction. New and practical triangulation criteria are also developed to support the priority driven strategy and to construct a new triangle at each step of mesh growing in real time. The quality and correctness of the created triangles will be guaranteed by the triangulation criteria and topological operations. The algorithm can reconstruct an object surface from unorganized surface points in a fast and reliable manner. Moreover, it can successfully construct the surface of the objects with complex geometry or topology. The efficiency and robustness of the proposed algorithm is validated by extensive experiments.     

隐式曲面重新多边形化

首先用Bloomenthal的多边形化算法生成一个粗糙的初始网格;然后在初始网格上分布若干个新顶点,新顶点可以均匀分布,也可以按曲率分布;再把初始网格上的老顶点和新顶点连接起来,生成一个中间网格,从中间网格上删除初始网格上的老顶点,得到重新多边形化的网格;最后细分这个网格．实验结果表明：该算法可以生成近似等边的、大小由曲率指导的三角网格．     

Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Point Data with Quadrics

We present a reverse engineering method for constructing a surface approximation scheme whose input is a set of unorganized noisy points in space and whose output is a set of quadric patches. The local surface properties, necessary for the subsequent segmentation, are estimated directly from the data using a simple and efficient data structure—the neighborhood graph. Our segmentation scheme, based on principal curvatures, constructs initial point subsets, which may be enlarged or further subdivided based on associated approximation error estimates obtained through approximation of the initial segments by quadric surfaces. Our method is highly efficient and produces a high‐quality piecewise quadric surface approximation of engineering objects, which we demonstrate for several simple and complex example data sets.