Stroke-Based Surface Reconstruction

Stroke-Based Surface Reconstruction

Year:    2013

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 6 (2013), Iss. 1 : pp. 297–324

Abstract

In this paper, we present a surface reconstruction via 2D strokes and a vector field on the strokes based on a two-step method. In the first step, from sparse strokes drawn by artists and a given vector field on the strokes, we propose a nonlinear vector interpolation combining total variation (TV) and $H^1$ regularization with a curl-free constraint for obtaining a dense vector field. In the second step, a height map is obtained by integrating the dense vector field in the first step. Jump discontinuities in surface and discontinuities of surface gradients can be well reconstructed without any surface distortion. We also provide a fast and efficient algorithm for solving the proposed functionals. Since vectors on the strokes are interpreted as a projection of surface gradients onto the plane, different types of strokes are easily devised to generate geometrically crucial structures such as ridge, valley, jump, bump, and dip on the surface. The stroke types help users to create a surface which they intuitively imagine from 2D strokes. We compare our results with conventional methods via many examples.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.2013.mssvm16

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 6 (2013), Iss. 1 : pp. 297–324

Published online:    2013-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    28

Keywords:    Surface reconstruction from a sparse vector field augmented Lagrangian method two-step method curl-free constraint total variation regularization preservation of discontinuities in surface normal vectors.