SPPD: A Novel Reassembly Method for 3D Terracotta Warrior Fragments Based on Fracture Surface Information

Autor: Wenmin Yao, Tong Chu, Wenlong Tang, Jingyu Wang, Xin Cao, Fengjun Zhao, Kang Li, Guohua Geng, Mingquan Zhou
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 10, Iss 8, p 525 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2220-9964
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10080525
Popis: As one of China′s most precious cultural relics, the excavation and protection of the Terracotta Warriors pose significant challenges to archaeologists. A fairly common situation in the excavation is that the Terracotta Warriors are mostly found in the form of fragments, and manual reassembly among numerous fragments is laborious and time-consuming. This work presents a fracture-surface-based reassembling method, which is composed of SiamesePointNet, principal component analysis (PCA), and deep closest point (DCP), and is named SPPD. Firstly, SiamesePointNet is proposed to determine whether a pair of point clouds of 3D Terracotta Warrior fragments can be reassembled. Then, a coarse-to-fine registration method based on PCA and DCP is proposed to register the two fragments into a reassembled one. The above two steps iterate until the termination condition is met. A series of experiments on real-world examples are conducted, and the results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than the conventional reassembling methods. We hope this work can provide a valuable tool for the virtual restoration of three-dimension cultural heritage artifacts.
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