TY - GEN
T1 - Meshing Point Clouds Using Spherical Parameterization
AU - Zwicker, M.
AU - Gotsman, C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Eurographics Association 2004.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - We present a simple method for meshing a 3D point cloud to a manifold genus-0 mesh. Our approach is based on recent methods for spherical embedding of planar graphs, where we use instead a k-nearest neighborhood graph of the point cloud. Our approach proceeds in two steps: We first embed the neighborhood graph on a sphere using an iterative procedure, minimizing the tangential Laplacian. Then we triangulate the embedded points and apply the resulting mesh connectivity to the input points. Besides meshing, spherical embedding of point clouds may also be used for other applications such as texture mapping or morphing.
AB - We present a simple method for meshing a 3D point cloud to a manifold genus-0 mesh. Our approach is based on recent methods for spherical embedding of planar graphs, where we use instead a k-nearest neighborhood graph of the point cloud. Our approach proceeds in two steps: We first embed the neighborhood graph on a sphere using an iterative procedure, minimizing the tangential Laplacian. Then we triangulate the embedded points and apply the resulting mesh connectivity to the input points. Besides meshing, spherical embedding of point clouds may also be used for other applications such as texture mapping or morphing.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052547638
T3 - 1st Symposium on Point Based Graphics, PBG 2004
SP - 173
EP - 180
BT - 1st Symposium on Point Based Graphics, PBG 2004
A2 - Alexa, Marc
A2 - Gross, Markus
A2 - Pfister, Hanspeter
A2 - Rusinkiewicz, Szymon
PB - The Eurographics Association
T2 - 1st Symposium on Point Based Graphics, PBG 2004
Y2 - 2 June 2004 through 4 June 2004
ER -