Title
Visibility-Driven Skeleton Extraction From Unstructured Points
Abstract
We present an algorithm for curve skeleton extraction from unstructured points using visibility as a guide. We introduce visible cells inside the point samples. By locating a viewpoint in the space, visible points from the viewpoint are connected to indicate the visible region, which locally captures the interior structure of the points and is called a visible cell. We then analyze and clean the visible cells for noisy and incomplete points. By connecting the cleaned visible cells with a region growing method, we obtain the skeleton along which the visibility of the unstructured points is balanced. No normal computation or ellipse fitting is required by using the proposed method. We show that the proposed skeleton well represents the shape. We experiment with our algorithm on imperfect points and show that comparative curved skeletons are extracted with relative lower computational cost. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.cagd.2020.101929
COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Curve skeleton, Point cloud, Visibility
Journal
82
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-8396
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lifeng Zhu111010.80
Wen Xing201.01
Aiguo Song354686.46
Yongjie Zhang429334.45