Novel and fast mapping triangulation algorithm for unorganized points cloud

Yongchao Wei; Xianyu Su

doi:10.1117/1.3013234

1 November 2008 Novel and fast mapping triangulation algorithm for unorganized points cloud

Yongchao Wei, Xianyu Su

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 47, Issue 11, 117205 (November 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3013234

Abstract

Many applications produce three-dimensional points that must be further processed to generate a surface. Surface reconstruction algorithms that start with a set of unorganized points are extremely time-consuming. Sometimes, however, points are generated such that additional information is available to the reconstruction algorithms. There are triangulation algorithms based on mapping technology. Of these, some are fit only for nonoverlapping point sets. Some can process overlapping point sets, but they need manual intervention and their efficiency is low. In addition to sample point locations, our algorithm starts with usual information and knowledge of each point's neighbors. Using that information and the base point's normal vector, our algorithm automatically and dynamically partitions points into patches, and then projects 3-D points with more than k neighbors onto 2-D tangent planes. Then using a 2-D triangulation method to get 3-D triangles, and a special method for removing illegal triangles, we finally get our triangulation. An experiment shows that our algorithm can solve overlapping-set problems very well, and its efficiency is high.

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Yongchao Wei and Xianyu Su "Novel and fast mapping triangulation algorithm for unorganized points cloud," Optical Engineering 47(11), 117205 (1 November 2008). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3013234

Published: 1 November 2008

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