Anisotropic diffusion of surface normals for feature preserving surface reconstruction

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Publication Type technical report
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing, School of
Program Advanced Research Projects Agency
Creator Tasdizen, Tolga; Whitaker, Ross T.
Title Anisotropic diffusion of surface normals for feature preserving surface reconstruction
Date 2003-04-18
Description For 3D surface reconstruction problems with noisy and incomplete range data measured from complex scenes with arbitrary topologies, a low-level representation, such as level set surfaces, is used. Such surface reconstruction is typically accomplished by minimizing a weighted sum of data-model discrepancy and model smoothness terms. This paper introduces a new nonlinear model smoothness term for surface reconstruction based on variations of the surface normals. A direct solution requires solving a fourth-order partial differential equation (PDE), which is very difficult with conventional numerical techniques. Our solution is based on processing the normals separately from the surface, which allows us to separate the problem into two second-order PDEs. The proposed method can smooth complex, noisy surfaces, while preserving sharp, geometric features, and it is a natural generalization of edge-preserving methods in image processing, such as anisotropic diffusion.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Anisotropic diffusion; Surface reconstruction
Subject LCSH Anisotropy; Surfaces -- Computer simulation
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Tasdizen, Tolga; Whitaker, Ross T. (2003). Anisotropic diffusion of surface normals for feature preserving surface reconstruction. UUCS-03-007.
Series University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report
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Source University of Utah School of Computing
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m623c3