An Immersive Method for Extracting Structural Information from Unorganized Point Clouds

Point clouds find extensive applications across diverse domains such as construction, architecture, and archaeology due to their capacity to encapsulate rich datasets. Given the density and detail of these datasets, extracting accurate structural information (geometrical and connectivity information) demands sophisticated algorithms and tools. The recent advancements in virtual reality (VR) technology and rendering techniques have significantly elevated the ability to visualize these point cloud datasets, affording users an immersive experience within the data. This immersive capability holds the potential to streamline the process of extracting valuable information from these datasets. In this work, we explore the feasibility of extracting and visualizing structural information from point clouds with immersive interfaces. We propose strategies to enhance human perception of the underlying structure and interactive methods to extract face, edge, vertex, and connectivity data from the raw, unorganized point clouds. Our method is evaluated based on public datasets. We believe our work represents a promising attempt to integrate human insights into the data processing pipeline.