Novel Adaptive Laser Scanning Method for Point Clouds of Free-Form Objects.

Laser scanners are widely used to collect coordinates, also known as point-clouds, of three-dimensional free-form objects. For creating a solid model from a given point-cloud and transferring the data from the model, features-based optimization of the point-cloud to minimize the number if points in the cloud is required. To solve this problem, existing methods mainly extract significant points based on local surface variation of a predefined level.