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Issue No.02 - March/April (2010 vol.16)
Hanqi Fan , Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
Yizhou Yu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Qunsheng Peng , Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.70
In this paper, we introduce a feature-preserving denoising algorithm. It is built on the premise that the underlying surface of a noisy mesh is piecewise smooth, and a sharp feature lies on the intersection of multiple smooth surface regions. A vertex close to a sharp feature is likely to have a neighborhood that includes distinct smooth segments. By defining the consistent subneighborhood as the segment whose geometry and normal orientation most consistent with those of the vertex, we can completely remove the influence from neighbors lying on other segments during denoising. Our method identifies piecewise smooth subneighborhoods using a robust density-based clustering algorithm based on shared nearest neighbors. In our method, we obtain an initial estimate of vertex normals and curvature tensors by robustly fitting a local quadric model. An anisotropic filter based on optimal estimation theory is further applied to smooth the normal field and the curvature tensor field. This is followed by second-order bilateral filtering, which better preserves curvature details and alleviates volume shrinkage during denoising. The support of these filters is defined by the consistent subneighborhood of a vertex. We have applied this algorithm to both generic and CAD models, and sharp features, such as edges and corners, are very well preserved.
Denoising, features, clustering, shared nearest neighbors, normals, curvature tensors, quadrics, bilateral filtering.
Hanqi Fan, Yizhou Yu, Qunsheng Peng, "Robust Feature-Preserving Mesh Denoising Based on Consistent Subneighborhoods", IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, vol.16, no. 2, pp. 312-324, March/April 2010, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2009.70