Contributor
aniket agarwalla

Moving Least Squares for point set smoothing and differential properties estimation


Mentors
Nicolas Mellado
Organization
CGAL Project

The goal of this project is to add Moving Least Squares surface reconstruction algorithms to the point set processing component. This family of algorithms reconstruct an implicit surface from a point set by fitting and projecting each point on a primitive (plane, sphere) fitting its neighborhood. The resulting surface is a smooth approximation of the input point cloud (smoothing degree is controlled by the primitive type and neighborhood size). Depending on the used primitive, several differential properties of the surface can be estimated.