Generic template based 3D object reconstruction using regional partitioning.

Tong Kai Man.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-80).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Previous and related works --- p.2Chapter 1.3 --- The Proposed Method --- p.4Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis outline --- p.6Chapter 2. --- Global deformation --- p.8Chapter 2.1 --- Feature points --- p.8Chapter 2.2 --- The deformation --- p.9Chapter 2.2.1 --- Deformation using affine transformation --- p.9Chapter 2.2.2 --- Elastic warping using Radial Basis Functions --- p.12Chapter 2.2.3 --- Biharmonic and triharmonic basic functions --- p.16Chapter 3. --- Local iterative surface fitting --- p.19Chapter 3.1 --- Basic closest point method --- p.19Chapter 3.2 --- Regional partitioning method --- p.27Chapter 3.2.1 --- Defining the regions --- p.29Chapter 3.2.2 --- Propagating from the seeds --- p.31Chapter 3.2.3 --- Handling the distortions --- p.36Chapter 3.3 --- Combined methods for surface fitting --- p.41Chapter 3.3.1 --- Summary of the surface fitting methods --- p.41Chapter 3.3.2 --- Combining the methods --- p.43Chapter 3.3.3 --- Fine-level fitting results --- p.47Chapter 4. --- Enhanced template based 3D Object reconstruction --- p.53Chapter 4.1 --- Compactly supported radial basis functions --- p.53Chapter 4.2 --- Reconstruction using two templates --- p.55Chapter 5. --- Implementations and Results --- p.60Chapter 5.1 --- Creation of 3D objects --- p.60Chapter 5.2 --- Feature points selection --- p.61Chapter 5.3 --- Experiment platform --- p.62Chapter 5.4 --- Results --- p.63Chapter 6. --- Conclusions --- p.71Chapter 6.1 --- Contributions --- p.72Chapter 6.2 --- Future developments --- p.72Appendix A --- p.73Voxel based closest point evaluation --- p.73References --- p.7