HRBF-Fusion
Accurate 3D Reconstruction from RGB-D Data Using On-the-fly Implicits
Yabin Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
L. Nan (TU Delft - Urban Data Science)
Laishui Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Jun Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
C.C. Wang (TU Delft - Materials and Manufacturing, The University of Manchester)
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Abstract
Reconstruction of high-fidelity 3D objects or scenes is a fundamental research problem. Recent advances in RGB-D fusion have demonstrated the potential of producing 3D models from consumer-level RGB-D cameras. However, due to the discrete nature and limited resolution of their surface representations (e.g., point or voxel based), existing approaches suffer from the accumulation of errors in camera tracking and distortion in the reconstruction, which leads to an unsatisfactory 3D reconstruction. In this article, we present a method using on-the-fly implicits of Hermite Radial Basis Functions (HRBFs) as a continuous surface representation for camera tracking in an existing RGB-D fusion framework. Furthermore, curvature estimation and confidence evaluation are coherently derived from the inherent surface properties of the on-the-fly HRBF implicits, which are devoted to a data fusion with better quality. We argue that our continuous but on-the-fly surface representation can effectively mitigate the impact of noise with its robustness and constrain the reconstruction with inherent surface smoothness when being compared with discrete representations. Experimental results on various real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our HRBF-fusion outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches in terms of tracking robustness and reconstruction accuracy.