Lecture: Digital Geometric Models: Representation, Creation and Editing

Course

Lecturer(s):
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klein
Website:
Start:
Dates: Thu. 11 (c.t.) - 13, N328
Course number: MA-INF 2205
Curriculum: Master , Diploma (Graduate)
Requirements:
Diploma Area: B
Effort:
Max. Participants:
Exams:
Follow-up/Side-events:

Exercises

Tutor(s):
Start: 21.4.09
Dates: Tue. 17 (c.t.), N218
Course number:

Description

Digital geometric models find nowadays numerous applications ranging from industrial CAD and terrain or scientific visualization to games and movie productions.

This lecture covers all aspects of DGM from their aquisiton and representation to editing and processing.In detail it discusses the following topics:

Methods for the generation of polygonal meshes (Laser scanning, reg-
istration and integration of single mesh parts, etc.), Point based rep-
resentations, Reconstruction techniques. Efficient mesh data struc-
tures and mesh compression. Optimization of polygonal meshes: fair-
ing and remeshing. Mesh decimation and refinement, Hierarchical
representations. Editing of polygonal meshes.

Hinweis: Diplomstudenten können sich über diese Vorlesung zusammen mit "Rendering: Materialien und Bilderzeugung" prüfen lassen.

Assignment notes

Running Matlab: Unfortunately, there is a bug in the current MATLAB installation in the pool. Before running Matlab it is therefore required to define a certain environment variable. Choose My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> New (in User Variables). Now define MATLAB_PREFDIR=C:\TEMP\<username>

Installing OMToolbox: In the exercises we will make use of the OmToolbox - an Interface of the OpenMesh Library to Matlab. To install it follow these steps

download the Toolbox either Windows Binaries or Source
extract OMT archive
Under Windows in the Pool: Set environment variable VS80COMNTOOLS to the same value as VS90COMNTOOLS, e.g. c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\ (for defining environment variables see Running Matlab). The value of VS90COMNTOOLS can be determined by running the command "set" in the command window
start Matlab
add OMT directory and its subdirectories to the Matlab path via File -> Set Path -> Add With Subfolders

Slides

Erfassung-Registrierung (PDF document, 7.7 MB)
Implicit-Representations-Distancefunction (PDF document, 3.8 MB)
Distanzfunktion-Volume-Carving (PDF document, 3.6 MB)
Volume-Carving (PDF document, 1.9 MB)
global-optimization-for-shape-fitting (PDF document, 12.4 MB)
Primitive-Shapes-RANSAC (PDF document, 3.6 MB)
Differentialgeometrie (PDF document, 2.1 MB)
Mesh-Smoothing (PDF document, 6.0 MB)
DifferentialCoordinates and Editing (PDF document, 15.1 MB)
Mesh-paramtrization (PDF document, 6.3 MB)

Assignment Sheets

	Exercise 0: Introduction Assignment sheet (PDF document, 51 KB) Armadillo.obj.zip (ZIP archive, 6.6 MB) bunny.obj.zip (ZIP archive, 868 KB)
	Exercise 1: Iterative Closest Points Assignment sheet (PDF document, 63 KB) ann_mwrapper.zip (ZIP archive, 681 KB) geruest.rar (RAR archive, 129 KB) haus.zip (ZIP archive, 3.8 MB)
	Exercise 2: PCA Assignment sheet (PDF document, 181 KB) geruest.zip (ZIP archive, 6.3 KB) messungen.mat (data, 10.0 MB) people.zip (ZIP archive, 5.8 MB)
	Exercise 3: Normals Assignment sheet (PDF document, 61 KB) geruest-binaries-linux-x64.zip (ZIP archive, 5.3 MB) geruest.zip (ZIP archive, 1.2 MB) Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Points.pdf (PDF document, 558 KB)
	Exercise 4: Reconstruction Assignment sheet (PDF document, 525 KB) cvpr07.pdf (PDF document, 3.7 MB) geruest.zip (ZIP archive, 1.7 MB)
	Exercise 5: Smoothing Assignment sheet (PDF document, 259 KB) bunny_korrekt.obj.zip (ZIP archive, 871 KB) data.zip (ZIP archive, 2.0 MB) matlab.zip (ZIP archive, 3.9 KB)