Surface Reconstruction Preserving Discontinuities

Abstract : This paper presents some experimental results that indicate the plausibility of using non-convex variational principles to reconstruct piecewise smooth surfaces from sparse and noisy data. This method uses prior generic knowledge about the geometry of the discontinuities to prevent the blurring of the boundaries between continuous subregions. The author includes examples of the application of this approach to the reconstruction of dynthetic surfaces, and to the interpolation of disparity data from the stereo processing of real images. (Author)

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