A Review of Performance of Surface Reconstruction Algorithms

Surface reconstruction is the process to achieve three-dimensional complex surface model quickly and accurately from three-dimensional data obtained as a sample, that is widely used in reverse engineering. Reverse engineering of geometric shapes is the process of converting a large number of measured data points into a concise and consistent computer representation. Reconstruction of a 3-D object surface from sample of points has a wide range of applications such as computer-aided design (CAD) design, virtual reality, medical imaging, and movie industry. Surface reconstruction is challenging as the topology of the real surface is unknown, acquired data can be non-uniform and contaminated by noise, and reconstructing surfaces from large data sets can be prohibitively expensive in terms of computations or memory usage. Keywords— accurately, reverse engineering, reconstruction, topology, contaminated.