Isotropic Surface Remeshing without Large and Small Angles

Yiqun Wang, Dong-Ming Yan, Xiaohan Liu, Chengcheng Tang, Jianwei Guo, Xiaopeng Zhang, Peter Wonka

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Abstract

We introduce a novel algorithm for isotropic surface remeshing which progressively eliminates obtuse triangles and improves small angles. The main novelty of the proposed approach is a simple vertex insertion scheme that facilitates the removal of large angles, and a vertex removal operation that improves the distribution of small angles. In combination with other standard local mesh operators, e.g., connectivity optimization and local tangential smoothing, our algorithm is able to remesh efficiently a low-quality mesh surface. Our approach can be applied directly or used as a post-processing step following other remeshing approaches. Our method has a similar computational efficiency to the fastest approach available, i.e., real-time adaptive remeshing [1]. In comparison with state-of-the-art approaches, our method consistently generates better results based on evaluations using different metrics.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2430-2442
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Volume25
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - May 18 2018

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We thank anonymous reviewer for their valuable comments and suggestions. This work is partially funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61772523, 61620106003, 61331018), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4184102), and the KAUST Visual Computing Center. Y. Wang and D.-M. Yan are joint first author with equal contribution. D.-M. Yan is the corresponding author.

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