An adaptive normal estimation method for scanned point clouds with sharp features |
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Authors: | Yutao Wang Hsi-Yung Feng Félix-Étienne Delorme Serafettin Engin |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4;2. Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., 1000 Marie-Victorin Blvd., Longueuil, QC, Canada J4G 1A1 |
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Abstract: | Normal estimation is an essential task for scanned point clouds in various CAD/CAM applications. Many existing methods are unable to reliably estimate normals for points around sharp features since the neighborhood employed for the normal estimation would enclose points belonging to different surface patches across the sharp feature. To address this challenging issue, a robust normal estimation method is developed in order to effectively establish a proper neighborhood for each point in the scanned point cloud. In particular, for a point near sharp features, an anisotropic neighborhood is formed to only enclose neighboring points located on the same surface patch as the point. Neighboring points on the other surface patches are discarded. The developed method has been demonstrated to be robust towards noise and outliers in the scanned point cloud and capable of dealing with sparse point clouds. Some parameters are involved in the developed method. An automatic procedure is devised to adaptively evaluate the values of these parameters according to the varying local geometry. Numerous case studies using both synthetic and measured point cloud data have been carried out to compare the reliability and robustness of the proposed method against various existing methods. |
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Keywords: | Normal estimation Scanned point clouds Noise and outliers Sharp feature Anisotropic neighborhood |
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