Points for surface representation and processing

I'm interested in using points for surface representation and processing. Specifically, I'm studying the use of moving least-squares techniques in problems ranging from practical (doing surface reconstruction from range scans) to theoretical (what can we tell about the surface defined by a certain MLS procedure?).

Related Publications

Optimal Bandwidth Selection for MLS Surfaces. H. Wang, C. Scheidegger, C. Silva. To appear at SMI 2008.
A Unified Projection Operator for MLS Surfaces. T. Ochotta, C. Scheidegger, J. Schreiner, Y. Lima, R. M. Kirby, C. Silva. SCI Institute Tech Report #UUSCI-2007-006.
High-Quality Extraction of Isosurfaces from Regular and Irregular Grids. John Schreiner, C. Scheidegger and C. Silva. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comp. Graph. 12(5):1205-1212.
Direct (Re)Meshing for Efficient Surface Processing. J. Schreiner, C. Scheidegger, S. Fleishman, C. Silva. Comp. Graph. Forum, 25(3):527--536.
Triangulating Point-Set Surfaces With Bounded Error C. Scheidegger, S. Fleishman, C. Silva. Proceedings of the third Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing. Pages 63-72. Published by the Eurographics Association, 2005. ISBN 3-905673-24-X. (There was a small miscalculation in the error bound in the original version. Fortunately, the bound is actually tighter than what is reported on this work. Unfortunately, it made it into the proceedings. The corrected bound is on the EG2006 paper.)