Estimate Surface Normals

Estimate the surface normals of a point cloud.
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Updated 28 May 2014

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Given a point cloud and query point, estimate the surface normal by performing an eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix created from the nearest neighbors of the query point for a fixed radius.

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William J. Beksi (2026). Estimate Surface Normals (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/46757-estimate-surface-normals), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2013b
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