Estimating differential quantities from point cloud based on a linear fitting of normal vectors

DOI10.1007/s11432-009-0061-5zbMath1185.65034MaRDI QIDQ2267061

Zhanglin Cheng, Xiaopeng Zhang

Publication date: 26 February 2010

Published in: Science in China. Series F (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-009-0061-5

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examples; computer vision; computer graphics; curvature estimation; principal curvatures; principal directions; graphical examples; point cloud; Darboux frames; differential geometric properties; normal fitting; Weingarten matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65D10: Numerical smoothing, curve fitting

68U05: Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects)

65D18: Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry

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