Surface reconstruction of incomplete datasets: A novel Poisson surface approach based on CSRBF

摘要

This paper introduces a novel surface reconstruction method based on unorganized point clouds, which focuses on offering complete and closed mesh models of partially sampled object surfaces. To accomplish this task, our approach builds upon a knowna priorimodel that coarsely describes the scanned object to guide the modeling of the shape based on heavily occluded point clouds. In the region of space visible to the scanner, we retrieve the surface by following the resolution of a Poisson problem: the surface is modeled as the zero level-set of an implicit function whose gradient is the closest to the vector field induced by the 3D sample normals. In the occluded region of space, we consider thea priorimodel as a sufficiently accurate descriptor of the shape. Both models, which are expressed in the same basis of compactly supported radial functions to ensure computation and memory efficiency, are then blended to obtain a closed model of the scanned object. Our method is finally tested on traditional testing datasets to assess its accuracy and on simulated terrestrial LiDAR scanning (TLS) point clouds of trees to assess its ability to handle complex shapes with occlusions.