Sep 6 – 10, 2026
Centro Didattico Morgagni
Europe/Rome timezone

A Registration-free Approach for Shape and Color Monitoring of Functionally Graded Materials via 4D Point Clouds

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20m
Centro Didattico Morgagni

Centro Didattico Morgagni

Viale Morgagni 40, Firenze
Other/special session/invited session

Speaker

Mariafrancesca Patalano (University of Padua)

Description

Recent advances in additive manufacturing enable the fabrication of complex parts with intricate geometries and spatially-varying material composition. Data fusion integrates point cloud data with chromatic attributes, yielding 4D point clouds, a rich representation that jointly encodes shape and material information. We introduce a registration-free framework for jointly monitoring shape and surface color via 4D point clouds. The proposed approach leverages the Laplace-Beltrami operator to capture intrinsic spectral features. A combined monitoring scheme is developed to detect shape deformations and color anomalies, complemented by a spatially-aware post-signal diagnostic procedure to determine the source of change and localize color anomalies. Crucially, neither component requires point cloud registration or mesh reconstruction, thereby eliminating error-prone and computationally expensive pre-processing steps. The performance of the proposed framework is assessed through a Monte Carlo simulation study and a case study.

Special/ Invited session Young Statisticians
Classification Both methodology and application
Keywords Statistical Process Monitoring; Post-signal diagnostic; Laplace-Beltrami operator

Primary author

Mariafrancesca Patalano (University of Padua)

Co-authors

Giovanna Capizzi (Department of Statistical Sciences) Kamran Paynabar (School of Industrial and Systems Engineering)

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