Bicubic B-Spline And Thin Plate Spline On Surface Appoximation

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2017-03
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Liew, Khang Jie
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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In real life, the available data points which are either 2D or 3D are normally scattered and contaminated with noise. The noise is defined as the variation in a set of data points. To fit these data points, the approximation methods are considered as a suitable mean compared to the interpolation methods. It is important for the approximation methods to preserve the shape and features of the model in the presence of any noise. B-spline and thin plate spline approximation are being studied in this thesis. The effectiveness of the modified B-spline approximation algorithm is investigated in approximating the bicubic B-spline surface from the samples of scattered data points taken from the point set model. The algorithm is used to determine the unknown B-spline control points and followed by the construction of bicubic B-spline surface patch. The experimental results show that the modified B-spline approximation algorithm manages to construct the surfaces that resemble the shape of original samples point set without going through the multilevel surface approximation. The sharp edge preservation in bicubic B-spline surface is also being studied. On top of that, an algorithm which is based on bootstrap averaging method is proposed and able to achieve the sharp edge preservation. Further studies are carried out to investigate the effect of noise with different noise levels in preserving the sharp edge. The approximation scheme of the thin plate spline which is one of the radial basis functions is also used to fit the data points in this study. A comparison is carried out to observe the effect of noise in the bicubic B-spline surface fitting and the thin plate spline surface fitting, which reveals that the B-spline surface is sensitive to the noise compared to the thin plate spline.
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Bicubic B-spline and thin plate spline , on surface appoximation
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