Implicit reconstructions of thin leaf surfaces from large, noisy point clouds

DOI10.1016/J.APM.2021.05.014zbMATH Open1481.65033arXiv2009.10286OpenAlexW3167343734WikidataQ125257852 ScholiaQ125257852MaRDI QIDQ2247369FDOQ2247369

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 17 November 2021

Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Thin surfaces, such as the leaves of a plant, pose a significant challenge for implicit surface reconstruction techniques, which typically assume a closed, orientable surface. We show that by approximately interpolating a point cloud of the surface (augmented with off-surface points) and restricting the evaluation of the interpolant to a tight domain around the point cloud, we need only require an orientable surface for the reconstruction. We use polyharmonic smoothing splines to fit approximate interpolants to noisy data, and a partition of unity method with an octree-like strategy for choosing subdomains. This method enables us to interpolate an N-point dataset in O(N) operations. We present results for point clouds of capsicum and tomato plants, scanned with a handheld device. An important outcome of the work is that sufficiently smooth leaf surfaces are generated that are amenable for droplet spreading simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10286

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zbMATH Keywords

radial basis functionpartition of unitypolyharmonic splineimplicit surface reconstructionthin surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical interpolation (65D05) Approximation by other special function classes (41A30) Plant biology (92C80)

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Cited In (4)

• Modelling leaf surface reconstruction using Bernstein polynomials method
• A comparison of techniques for the reconstruction of leaf surfaces from scanned data
• Leaf surface reconstruction using a hybrid interpolation finite element method
• Image-based reconstruction and synthesis of dense foliage

Uses Software

• Matlab
• PovRay

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