Software release for smoothing point clouds, and normal and feature estimations

Dear Geometers,

We are pleased to announce the release of the AMLS software. This software produces ``smooth point clouds'' from a noisy one which can be fed to a standard reconstruction software.The software is based on a new definition of MLS surfaces (known in graphics) as presented in the following paper.

1. K. Dey and J. Sun. An adaptive MLS surface for reconstruction with guarantees. Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing 2005), 43--52.

We are also releasing the NormFet software that can estimate the normals and feature sizes of a surface from its possibly noisy point sample. The output of this software can be fed as an input to AMLS which requires input point clouds be equipped with normals and feature sizes. NormFet is based on a recent result presented in the following paper.

1. K. Dey and J. Sun. Normal and feature estimations from noisy point clouds. Technical-report OSU-CISRC-7/50-TR50, July, 2005.

The software can be downloaded from:

AMLS: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~tamaldey/amls.html

NormFet: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~tamaldey/normfet.html

---Tamal K. Dey http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~tamaldey

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