A Novel Surface Completion Method

Abstract. Surface completion is a classical and significant research topic in the area of digital geometry processing. Due to the expensive time consumption and the unreliability of the existing popular algorithm, a surface completion method is proposed in this paper that can recover the significant geometric information of the underlying model. Firstly, the hole is filled by a smooth patch by modified advancing front mesh technique. Secondly, the fine-scaled details are added by fitting quadric surface from the boundary of the hole to its center. The experimental results demonstrate that our surface completion scheme can effectively fill the holes and recover the fine-scale details of the hole region