Contour-enhanced resampling of 3D point clouds via graphs

Siheng Chen, Dong Tian, Chen Feng, Anthony Vetro, Jelena Kovacevic

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Abstract

To reduce storage and computational cost for processing and visualizing large-scale 3D point clouds, an efficient resampling strategy is needed to select a representative subset of 3D points that can preserve contours in the original 3D point cloud. We tackle this problem by using graph-based techniques as graphs can represent underlying surfaces and lend themselves well to efficient computation. We first construct a general graph for a 3D point cloud and then propose a graph-based metric to quantify the contour information via high-pass graph filtering. Finally, we obtain an optimal resampling distribution that preserves the contour information by solving an optimization problem. When browsing, the proposed graph-based resampling performs better than uniform resampling both for toy point clouds as well as real large-scale point clouds. Furthermore, as neither mesh construction nor surface normal calculation is involved, the proposed graph-based method is computationally more efficient than the mesh-based methods.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2941-2945
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509041176
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 16 2017
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: Mar 5 2017Mar 9 2017

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period3/5/173/9/17

Keywords

  • 3D point cloud
  • graph signal processing
  • high-pass filtering
  • resampling strategy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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