Piecewise-Planar 3D Reconstruction with Edge and Corner Regularization

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 55 - 64
• Main Authors: Boulch, Alexandre, de La Gorce, Martin, Marlet, Renaud
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2014; Wiley
• Subjects: 3-D graphics; Analysis; Anisotropy; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Computational Geometry; Computer Science; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Corners; I.2.10 [Artificial Intelligence]: Vision and Scene Understanding-3D/stereo scene analysis; I.4.8 [Image Processing and Computer Vision]: Scene Analysis-Range data; I.5.4 [Pattern Recognition]: Applications-Computer vision; Linear programming; Magnetorheological fluids; Mathematical models; Optimization; Polygons; Reconstruction; Regularization; Regularization methods; Studies; Three dimensional; Topological manifolds

This paper presents a method for the 3D reconstruction of a piecewise‐planar surface from range images, typically laser scans with millions of points. The reconstructed surface is a watertight polygonal mesh that conforms to observations at a given scale in the visible planar parts of the scene, and...