Data-Dependent MLS for Faithful Surface Approximation


Yaron Lipman        Daniel Cohen-Or       David Levin       

 

Symposium on Geometry Processing 2007

 

 

 

 

Abstract:

 

In this paper we present a high-fidelity surface approximation technique that aims at a faithful reconstruction of

piecewise-smooth surfaces from a scattered point set. The presented method builds on the Moving Least-Squares

(MLS) projection methodology, but introduces a fundamental modification: While the classical MLS uses a fixed

approximation space, i.e., polynomials of a certain degree, the new method is data-dependent. For each projected

point, it finds a proper local approximation space of piecewise polynomials (splines). The locally constructed

spline encapsulates the local singularities which may exist in the data. The optional singularity for this local

approximation space is modeled via a Singularity Indicator Field (SIF) which is computed over the input data

points. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method by reconstructing surfaces from real scanned 3D data,

while being faithful to their most delicate features.

 

 

 

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The height function in (b) contains two types of circular features. Across the outer circle there is a function discontinuity,

and across the inner circle there is a delicate derivative discontinuity. The data set consists of the irregular point samples

(a). (d) and (f) demonstrate reconstruction by MLS and DDMLS, respectively. To better visualize the Gibbs phenomenon and

the over-smoothing, the corresponding isophote lines are presented at the bottom row. Note the oscillations near the boundaries

and the smoothing effect of the delicate inner circular feature caused by the MLS, compared with the faithfulness of the DDMLS.

To further illustrates the effect, 1D slices of the original, MLS, and DDMLS are displayed in (h) from top to bottom.

 

 

 

 

A scanned soap. (a) shows the ground truth (photograph). In (b) pct is taken as the 100th percentile, i.e., regular

MLS. In (c) and (d) pct is taken as the 90th and the 75th percentile, respectively. Note how the fine scratch on the soap (marked

by small arrow) is reconstructed by the DDMLS and smoothed out by the MLS. The small upper window at (a) shows a portion

of the scanned point cloud.