학술논문

GLSkeleton: A Geometric Laplacian-Based Skeletonisation Framework for Object Point Clouds
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE. 9(5):4615-4622 May, 2024
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Point cloud compression
Skeleton
Shape
Laplace equations
Grasping
Topology
Three-dimensional displays
Computational geometry
computer vision for automation
perception for grasping and manipulation
Language
ISSN
2377-3766
2377-3774
Abstract
The curve skeleton is known to geometric modeling and computer graphics communities as one of the shape descriptors which intuitively indicates the topological properties of the objects. In recent years, studies have also suggested the potential of applying curve skeletons to assist robotic reasoning and planning. However, the raw scanned point cloud model is typically incomplete and noisy. Besides, dealing with a large point cloud is also computationally inefficient. Focusing on the curve skeletonisation of incomplete and poorly distributed point clouds of objects, an efficient geometric Laplacian-based skeletonisation framework (GLSkeleton) is proposed in this work. We also present the computational efficiency of the introduced local reduction strategy (LPR) approach without sacrificing the main topological structure. Comprehensive experiments have been conducted to benchmark performance using an open-source dataset, and they have demonstrated a significant improvement in both contraction and overall skeletonisation computational speed.