A conformal approach for surface inpainting

DOI10.3934/IPI.2013.7.863zbMATH Open1276.65014arXiv1212.0981OpenAlexW2127698408MaRDI QIDQ371091FDOQ371091

Authors: Lok Ming Lui, Chengfeng Wen, Xianfeng Gu 

Publication date: 27 September 2013

Published in: Inverse Problems and Imaging (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the problem of surface inpainting, which aims to fill in holes or missing regions on a Riemann surface based on its surface geometry. In practical situation, surfaces obtained from range scanners often have holes where the 3D models are incomplete. In order to analyze the 3D shapes effectively, restoring the incomplete shape by filling in the surface holes is necessary. In this paper, we propose a novel conformal approach to inpaint surface holes on a Riemann surface based on its surface geometry. The basic idea is to represent the Riemann surface using its conformal factor and mean curvature. According to Riemann surface theory, a Riemann surface can be uniquely determined by its conformal factor and mean curvature up to a rigid motion. Given a Riemann surface $S$, its mean curvature $H$ and conformal factor $lambda$ can be computed easily through its conformal parameterization. Conversely, given $lambda$ and $H$, a Riemann surface can be uniquely reconstructed by solving the Gauss-Codazzi equation on the conformal parameter domain. Hence, the conformal factor and the mean curvature are two geometric quantities fully describing the surface. With this $lambda$-$H$ representation of the surface, the problem of surface inpainting can be reduced to the problem of image inpainting of $lambda$ and $H$ on the conformal parameter domain. Once $lambda$ and $H$ are inpainted, a Riemann surface can be reconstructed which effectively restores the 3D surface with missing holes. Since the inpainting model is based on the geometric quantities $lambda$ and $H$, the restored surface follows the surface geometric pattern. We test the proposed algorithm on synthetic data as well as real surface data. Experimental results show that our proposed method is an effective surface inpainting algorithm to fill in surface holes on an incomplete 3D models based their surface geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0981

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zbMATH Keywords

least squares methodnumerical examplesalgorithmconformal factorfinite difference methodRiemann surfacemean curvaturegraphical examplesconformal parameterizationGauss-Codazzi equationsurface inpainting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Numerical aspects of computer graphics, image analysis, and computational geometry (65D18) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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