DocumentCode :
3173782
Title :
Point Cloud Skeletons via Laplacian Based Contraction
Author :
Cao, Junjie ; Tagliasacchi, Andrea ; Olson, Matt ; Zhang, Hao ; Su, Zhixun
Author_Institution :
Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China
fYear :
2010
fDate :
21-23 June 2010
Firstpage :
187
Lastpage :
197
Abstract :
We present an algorithm for curve skeleton extraction via Laplacian-based contraction. Our algorithm can be applied to surfaces with boundaries, polygon soups, and point clouds. We develop a contraction operation that is designed to work on generalized discrete geometry data, particularly point clouds, via local Delaunay triangulation and topological thinning. Our approach is robust to noise and can handle moderate amounts of missing data, allowing skeleton-based manipulation of point clouds without explicit surface reconstruction. By avoiding explicit reconstruction, we are able to perform skeleton-driven topology repair of acquired point clouds in the presence of large amounts of missing data. In such cases, automatic surface reconstruction schemes tend to produce incorrect surface topology. We show that the curve skeletons we extract provide an intuitive and easy-to-manipulate structure for effective topology modification, leading to more faithful surface reconstruction.
Keywords :
feature extraction; image reconstruction; mesh generation; solid modelling; surface reconstruction; Laplacian based contraction; automatic surface reconstruction schemes; curve skeleton extraction; effective surface topology modification; explicit surface reconstruction; generalized discrete geometry data; local Delaunay triangulation; point cloud skeletons; skeleton-based manipulation; skeleton-driven topology repair; topological thinning; Clouds; Clustering algorithms; Computer vision; Feature extraction; Gaussian processes; Laplace equations; Production; Shape; Skeleton; Surface reconstruction; contraction; curve skeleton; laplacian; point cloud; surface reconstruction; topology repair;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Shape Modeling International Conference (SMI), 2010
Conference_Location :
Aix-en-Provence
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7259-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7260-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SMI.2010.25
Filename :
5521461
Link To Document :
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