Point ordering with natural distance based on Brownian motion (Q980607)

Summary: We consider a curve reconstruction problem from unorganized point clouds with noise. In general, the result of curve reconstruction depends on how to select and order the representative points to resemble the shape of the clouds. We exploit a natural distance based on a property of one-dimensional Brownian motion to order sample points, which simultaneously reflect smoothness and nearness of points, so that our algorithm is able to reconstruct not only simple curves but also nonsimple curves. Numerous examples show that this algorithm is effective. The natural distance proposed in this paper is able to play an important role in a variety of fields of measuring the distance of points with considering direction.