Least Squares Orthogonal Distance Fitting of Curves and Surfaces in Space

• Main Author: Ahn, Sung Joon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3151
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Algorithms.; Numerical analysis.; Computer graphics.; Mathematics.; Algebra.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Mathematics, general.; Numeric Computing.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Computer Graphics.

Due to the continuing progress of sensor technology, the availability of 3-D cameras is already foreseeable. These cameras are capable of generating a large set of measurement points within a very short time. There are a variety of 3-D camera applications in the fields of robotics, rapid product dev...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Least-Squares Orthogonal Distance Fitting
• 3. Orthogonal Distance Fitting of Implicit Curves and Surfaces
• 4. Orthogonal Distance Fitting of Parametric Curves and Surfaces
• 5. Object Reconstruction from Unordered Point Cloud
• 6. Conclusions.