Structure from Motion (SfM) is a pipeline that allows three-dimensional reconstruction
starting from a collection of images. A typical SfM pipeline comprises different processing …

The Ball-Pivoting Algorithm (BPA) computes a triangle mesh interpolating a given point
cloud. Typically, the points are surface samples acquired with multiple range scans of an …

We use polyharmonic Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) to reconstruct smooth, manifold
surfaces from point-cloud data and to repair incomplete meshes. An object's surface is …

We give a simple combinatorial algorithm that computes a piecewlze-linear approximation of
a smooth surface from a finite set of sample points. The algorithm uses Voronoi vertices to …

We present a new shape representation, the multi-level partition of unity implicit surface, that
allows us to construct surface models from very large sets of points. There are three key …

Abstract 3D reconstruction, refers to capturing and reproducing the shape and appearance
of an arbitrary object or scene given depth and color information. This is a broad research …

Congratulations and thank you for reading this book! You hold in your hand perhaps the first
book solely written on mechanical reverse engineering from an industry perspective. The …

Three‐dimensional (3D) image acquisition systems are rapidly becoming more affordable,
especially systems based on commodity electronic cameras. At the same time, personal …

There is a growing interest for the problem of reconslructing thc shape of an object from
multiple range images. Several methods, based on heuristics, have been described in the …

A systematic approach is proposed to automatically extract geometric surface features from
a point cloud composed of a set of unorganized three-dimensional coordinate points by data …