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Non-iterative, feature-preserving mesh smoothing

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Thouis R. Jones,

Mathieu DesbrunAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 22, Issue 3

Pages 943 - 949

https://doi.org/10.1145/882262.882367

Published: 01 July 2003 Publication History

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With the increasing use of geometry scanners to create 3D models, there is a rising need for fast and robust mesh smoothing to remove inevitable noise in the measurements. While most previous work has favored diffusion-based iterative techniques for feature-preserving smoothing, we propose a radically different approach, based on robust statistics and local first-order predictors of the surface. The robustness of our local estimates allows us to derive a non-iterative feature-preserving filtering technique applicable to arbitrary "triangle soups". We demonstrate its simplicity of implementation and its efficiency, which make it an excellent solution for smoothing large, noisy, and non-manifold meshes.

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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 22, Issue 3

July 2003

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