Title
A Survey of Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds.
Abstract
The area of surface reconstruction has seen substantial progress in the past two decades. The traditional problem addressed by surface reconstruction is to recover the digital representation of a physical shape that has been scanned, where the scanned data contain a wide variety of defects. While much of the earlier work has been focused on reconstructing a piece-wise smooth representation of the original shape, recent work has taken on more specialized priors to address significantly challenging data imperfections, where the reconstruction can take on different representations-not necessarily the explicit geometry. We survey the field of surface reconstruction, and provide a categorization with respect to priors, data imperfections and reconstruction output. By considering a holistic view of surface reconstruction, we show a detailed characterization of the field, highlight similarities between diverse reconstruction techniques and provide directions for future work in surface reconstruction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1111/cgf.12802
Comput. Graph. Forum
Keywords
Field
DocType
geometry processin,surface reconstruction,3D acquisition,shape analysis
Categorization,Surface reconstruction,Computer vision,Physical shape,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Point cloud,Prior probability,Shape analysis (digital geometry)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
1
0167-7055
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
50
1.32
128
Authors
8
Search Limit
100128
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Berger11125.17
Andrea Tagliasacchi271631.90
Lee M. Seversky31509.08
Pierre Alliez42749135.44
Gaël Guennebaud570228.95
Joshua A. Levine636919.64
Andrei Sharf7110849.93
Cláudio T. Silva85054290.90