Sparse surface reconstruction with adaptive partition of unity and radial basis functions

A new implicit surface fitting method for surface reconstruction from scattered point data is proposed. The method combines an adaptive partition of unity approximation with least-squares RBF fitting and is capable of generating a high quality surface reconstruction. Given a set of points scattered over a smooth surface, first a sparse set of overlapped local approximations is constructed. The partition of unity generated from these local approximants already gives a faithful surface reconstruction. The final reconstruction is obtained by adding compactly supported RBFs. The main feature of the developed approach consists of using various regularization schemes which lead to economical, yet accurate surface reconstruction. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.