Special Section: Point-Based Graphics: Processing and interactive editing of huge point clouds from 3D scanners

TL;DR: Relevant works from the Computer Vision, Geometry Processing, and Civil Engineering communities are presented and compared in terms of their potential to lead to automatic as-built modelling.

TL;DR: The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed fully automated registration process is not only capable of fully automating the registration of 3D data to a 3D CAD model but also beneficial for use in project progress monitoring.

TL;DR: A unified approach is presented that removes outliers from depth data and accordingly achieves an unbiased smoothing result and this robust denoising algorithm takes intra-patch similarity and optional color information into account in order to handle strong discontinuities and to preserve fine detail structure in the data.

TL;DR: A general method for automatic reconstruction of accurate, concise, piecewise smooth surfaces from unorganized 3D points that is able to automatically infer the topological type of the surface, its geometry, and the presence and location of features such as boundaries, creases, and corners.

TL;DR: The progressive mesh (PM) representation is introduced, a new scheme for storing and transmitting arbitrary triangle meshes that addresses several practical problems in graphics: smooth geomorphing of level-of-detail approximations, progressive transmission, mesh compression, and selective refinement.

TL;DR: This work describes a system for representing and progressively displaying meshes that combines a multiresolution hierarchy based on bounding spheres with a rendering system based on points, which is suitable for large data sets.

TL;DR: A novel method called visibility splatting determines visible surfels and holes in the z-buffer, which makes them specifically suited for low-cost, real-time graphics, such as games.