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This work describes a method for reconstructing water-tight surfaces from an
input of oriented points. It shows that the surface reconstruction
algorithm presented by the FFT method can be expressed as a solution to a Poisson
equation. Thus, by adapting an octree to the point set and solving the Poisson
equation on the octree (rather than on a regular voxel grid) the algorithm provides
a method for reconstructing much higher resolution models without incurring the
prohibitive memory overhead exhibited by prior methods. The latest version also supports the incorporation of point constraints as a screening term, allowing for the reconstruction of more detailed surfaces within the same adapted Poisson framework. (ToG 13) (SGP 2006) |
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This work presents a modification to the traditional mean-curvature flow that
appears to evolve genus-zero surface to conformal mappings onto the unit sphere.
By adapting the flow to use a conformalized metric, the flow avoids the numerical
instabilities arising in implementations of the traditional flow, slowing down the
evolution in cylindrical regions to allow the surface to evolve without forming neck-pinches.
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This work develops an approach for performing anisotropic geometry processing.
Formulating geometry processing as the solution to a screened Poisson equation,
using an efficient multigrid solver to solve the linear system, and using piecewise-constant
elements to represent the anisotropic scale, we support the editing of large
meshes at interactive rates.
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This work develops an approach for efficiently evolving meshes using
mean-curvature flow. Using an octree-based finite-elements system, we
track the flow of quadrature points and their Jacobians in order to
be able to correctly define the Poisson system over the evolved geometry.
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This work develops a metric-aware, streaming multigrid solver for
efficiently processing equirectangular spherical images. The solver
uses the symmetry of the parameterization to efficiently define the
linear system and hierarchicaly adapts the tesselation of the sphere
near the poles to ensure that the linear system remains well-conditioned.
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This work develops a distributed and streaming multigrid solver to
efficiently process large planar or spherical images. The solver
partitions images into bands, streams through these bands in parallel
within a networked cluster, and schedules computation to hide the necessary
synchronization latency. Using the solver, we can process images
ranging from tens of millions up to one-trillion pixels.
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This work explores a new formulation of finite-elements over meshes. By
considering the reconstruction of 3D elements defined over a voxel grid
to the suface of the mesh, we can define a function space that inherits
the regularity of the voxel grid, facilitating the design of a multigrid
solver for solving the Poisson equation.
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This work introduces a new tool for solving the large linear systems arising
from gradient-domain image processing. It develops a streaming multigrid solver,
which needs just two sequential passes over out-of-core data. The resulting
system can solve the huge linear systems associated with performing stitching and
tone-mapping on gigapixel images while maintaining a small in-core memory footprint.
Due to its fast convergence and excellent cache behavior, the streaming solver is also
efficient for in-memory images.
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This work describes an out-of-core method for performing Poisson
surface reconstruction. We introduce a novel multilevel streaming octree
representation that enables solving the global reconstruction problem by
performing only three passes through the data. Since each pass only requires
that local data is maintained in core, our approach provides a method for
reconstructing surfaces when the initial point set, the output mesh, and the
intermediate data structures are themselves too large to fit into working
memory.
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This work describes a method for extracting a watertight surfaces from an
octree representation of an implicit function. Using the topology of the
octree to define a set of binary edge-tree, the work shows that
inconsistencies due to depth disparities between adjacent leaf nodes can
be resolved, and a watertight isosurface can be extracted without restricting
either the topology or the values associated to the octree.
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This work describes a method for reconstructing water-tight surfaces from an
input of oriented points. The method reduces the problem of surface reconstruction
to convolution, and provides an efficient method for reconstruction that reduces
the reconstruction process to three simple steps: (1) splatting the oriented points
into a voxel grid, (2) efficiently convolving with a fixed filter using the FFT, and
(3) extracting an iso-surface use marching cubes. The additive nature of the reconstruction
makes it stable in the presence of noise, and a simple heuristic allows to work well
when the points are non-uniformly distributed.
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This work describes a method for efficiently computing the symmetries of a model
with respect to every axis passing through the model's center of mass.
The SGP '04 paper describes how fast signal-processing
over S^2 and SO(3) can be used to compute the symmetry descriptors, and describes
how the symmetry values can be used to improve retrieval performance.
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This work describes an iterative method for transforming anisotropic
models (models whose surface point variance is a function of direction) into
isotropic models (models whose covariance matrix is a constant multiple of
the identity matrix). The SIGGRAPH '04 paper describes applications of
anisotropic factorization to the domain of shape matching, where classes of
models that vary across anisotropy are difficult to match, due to the fact
that often the wrong correspondences are established between points on the
two surfaces.
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This word considers the limitations of canonical alignment and presents a
new mathematical tool, based on spherical harmonics, for obtaining rotation
invariant representations of 3D shapes. The SGP '03 paper describes the
properties of this tool and shows how it can be applied to a number of
existing, orientation dependent, descriptors to improve their matching
performance.
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