Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds by Transforming the Medial Scaffold

Author(s):  
Ming-Ching Chang ◽  
Frederic F. Leymarie ◽  
Benjamin B. Kimia
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Paul-Mark DiFrancesco ◽  
David A. Bonneau ◽  
D. Jean Hutchinson

Key to the quantification of rockfall hazard is an understanding of its magnitude-frequency behaviour. Remote sensing has allowed for the accurate observation of rockfall activity, with methods being developed for digitally assembling the monitored occurrences into a rockfall database. A prevalent challenge is the quantification of rockfall volume, whilst fully considering the 3D information stored in each of the extracted rockfall point clouds. Surface reconstruction is utilized to construct a 3D digital surface representation, allowing for an estimation of the volume of space that a point cloud occupies. Given various point cloud imperfections, it is difficult for methods to generate digital surface representations of rockfall with detailed geometry and correct topology. In this study, we tested four different computational geometry-based surface reconstruction methods on a database comprised of 3668 rockfalls. The database was derived from a 5-year LiDAR monitoring campaign of an active rock slope in interior British Columbia, Canada. Each method resulted in a different magnitude-frequency distribution of rockfall. The implications of 3D volume estimation were demonstrated utilizing surface mesh visualization, cumulative magnitude-frequency plots, power-law fitting, and projected annual frequencies of rockfall occurrence. The 3D volume estimation methods caused a notable shift in the magnitude-frequency relations, while the power-law scaling parameters remained relatively similar. We determined that the optimal 3D volume calculation approach is a hybrid methodology comprised of the Power Crust reconstruction and the Alpha Solid reconstruction. The Alpha Solid approach is to be used on small-scale point clouds, characterized with high curvatures relative to their sampling density, which challenge the Power Crust sampling assumptions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 2229-2232
Author(s):  
Ya Bin Cao

Class_A surface reconstruction is a key part in the design of automotive body external panel. Traditional methods of Class_A surface reconstruction have some disadvantages such as low efficiency, bad flexibility and low surface quality in complicated surface reconstruction. In this paper, a method of Class_A surface reconstruction from point clouds based on NURBS patch was presented, which made surface design more flexible and direct, besides, the reconstruction efficiency and surface quality were improved.


2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 2011-2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ling Chen ◽  
Bing-Yu Chen ◽  
Shang-Hong Lai ◽  
Tomoyuki Nishita

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1563-1571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Tagliasacchi ◽  
Matt Olson ◽  
Hao Zhang ◽  
Ghassan Hamarneh ◽  
Daniel Cohen-Or

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