Laser scanning range sensors are widely used for high-precision, high-density three-
dimensional (3D) reconstruction and inspection of the surface of physical objects. The …

A survey of research in the area of vision sensor planning is presented. The problem can be
summarized as follows: given information about the environment as well as information …

Two points in a polygon are called if the straight line between them lies entirely inside the
polygon. The art gallery problem for a polygon P is to find a minimum set of points G in P …

A solution to the" next best view"(NBV) problem for automated surface acquisition is
presented. The NBV problem is to determine which areas of a scanner's viewing volume …

In this paper we address the joint problems of automated data acquisition and view planning
for large-scale indoor and outdoor sites. Our method proceeds in two distinct stages. In the …

The objective of this paper is to propose a new semantic 3D data acquisition method which
is focused on sensing data belonging to indoor structural elements of buildings. Our system …

Constructing highly detailed three‐dimensional (3‐D) models of large complex sites using
range scanners can be a time‐consuming manual process. One of the main drawbacks is …

To acquire the complete surface description of a nontrivial object using range cameras
several range images from different viewpoints are needed. We present a complete system …

A polygon is said to be a weak visibility polygon if every point of the polygon is visible from
some point of an internal segment. In this paper we derive properties of shortest paths in …

We present a systematic view planning method to assist construction of 3-D models of large
outdoor sites using a mobile robot platform with mounted scanner. In the first stage, we …