An automatic hole filling method of point cloud for 3D scanning

Abstract

In recent years, due to the development of three-dimensional scanning technology, the opportunities for real objects to be three-dimensionally measured, taken into the PC as point cloud data, and used for various contents are increasing. However, the point cloud data obtained by three-dimensional scanning has many problems such as data loss due to occlusion or the material of the object to be measured, and occurrence of noise. Therefore, it is necessary to edit the point cloud data obtained by scanning. Particularly, since the point cloud data obtained by scanning contains many data missing, it takes much time to fill holes. Therefore, we propose a method to automatically filling hole obtained by three-dimensional scanning. In our method, a surface is generated from a point in the vicinity of a hole, and a hole region is filled by generating a point sequence on the surface. This method is suitable for processing to fill a large number of holes because point sequence interpolation can be performed automatically for hole regions without requiring user input.