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Publications in Scientific Journals:

C. Scheiblauer, M. Wimmer:
"Out-of-Core Selection and Editing of Huge Point Clouds";
Computers & Graphics, 30 (2011), 2; 342 - 351.



English abstract:
In this paper we present an out-of-core editing system for point clouds, which allows selecting and modifying arbitrary parts of a huge point cloud interactively. We can use the selections to segment the point cloud, to delete points, or to render a preview of the model without the points in the selections. Furthermore we allow for inserting points into an already existing point cloud. All operations are conducted on a rendering optimized data structure that uses the raw point cloud from a laser scanner, and no additionally created points are needed for an e cient level-of-detail (LOD) representation using this data structure. We also propose an algorithm to alleviate the artifacts when rendering a point cloud with large discrepancies in density in di erent areas by estimating point sizes heuristically. These estimated point sizes can be used to mimic a closed surface on the raw point cloud, also when the point cloud is composed of several raw laser scans.


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_201108.pdf


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