Efficientmesh denoising via robust normal filtering and alternate vertex updating
Tao LI1(), Jun WANG2(), Hao LIU2(), Li-gang LIU3()
1. College of Mathematics and Physics, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215007, China 2. College of Mechanical and Electronics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China 3. College of Mathematics Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
The most challenging problem in mesh denoising is to distinguish features from noise. Based on the robust guided normal estimation and alternate vertex updating strategy, we investigate a new feature-preserving mesh denoising method. To accurately capture local structures around features, we propose a corner-aware neighborhood (CAN) scheme. By combining both overall normal distribution of all faces in a CAN and individual normal influence of the interested face, we give a new consistency measuring method, which greatly improves the reliability of the estimated guided normals. As the noise level lowers, we take as guidance the previous filtered normals, which coincides with the emerging rolling guidance idea. In the vertex updating process, we classify vertices according to filtered normals at each iteration and reposition vertices of distinct types alternately with individual regularization constraints. Experiments on a variety of synthetic and real data indicate that our method adapts to various noise, both Gaussian and impulsive, no matter in the normal direction or in a random direction, with few triangles flipped.