Towards Globally Optimal Normal Orientations for Large Point Clouds

dc.contributor.authorSchertler, Nicoen_US
dc.contributor.authorSavchynskyy, Bogdanen_US
dc.contributor.authorGumhold, Stefanen_US
dc.contributor.editorChen, Min and Zhang, Hao (Richard)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-13T18:13:02Z
dc.date.available2017-03-13T18:13:02Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractVarious processing algorithms on point set surfaces rely on consistently oriented normals (e.g. Poisson surface reconstruction). While several approaches exist for the calculation of normal directions, in most cases, their orientation has to be determined in a subsequent step. This paper generalizes propagation‐based approaches by reformulating the task as a graph‐based energy minimization problem. By applying global solvers, we can achieve more consistent orientations than simple greedy optimizations. Furthermore, we present a streaming‐based framework for orienting large point clouds. This framework orients patches locally and generates a globally consistent patch orientation on a reduced neighbour graph, which achieves similar quality to orienting the full graph.Various processing algorithms on point set surfaces rely on consistently oriented normals (e.g. Poisson surface reconstruction).While several approaches exist for the calculation of normal directions, in most cases, their orientation has to be determined in a subsequent step. This paper generalizes propagation‐based approaches by reformulating the task as a graph‐based energy minimization problem and presents a streaming‐based out‐of‐core implementation.en_US
dc.description.number1
dc.description.sectionheadersArticles
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume36
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12795
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12795
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf12795
dc.publisher© 2017 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectcomputational geometry
dc.subjectmodelling
dc.subjectdigital geometry processing
dc.subjectI.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modelling‐Geometric algorithms, languages and systems
dc.titleTowards Globally Optimal Normal Orientations for Large Point Cloudsen_US
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