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area. The optimal, unique magnitude of <strong>the</strong> adjustment can be obtained. Crease edgesare preserved by adaptive smoothing according to <strong>the</strong> edge strength of each vertex on atriangle mesh, which is computed by fusing <strong>the</strong> tensor voting and <strong>the</strong> orientation checkof <strong>the</strong> normal vector field inside a geodesic window.2.2 Surface RegistrationSurface matching has two direct important applications in <strong>the</strong> area of computer vision.The first is three-dimensional (3D) image registration [33, 45, 94, 105, 110], which is alsoknown as pose estimation. When 3D images are taken at different viewpoints and datafusion is necessary, <strong>the</strong> rigid transformation between each view needs to be computed.Horn [41] showed that, given three or more pairs of non-coplanar corresponding 3Dpoints, <strong>the</strong> rigid transformation between <strong>the</strong> point pairs has a closed form solution.Thus <strong>the</strong> pose estimation problem becomes a surface point matching problem.Theo<strong>the</strong>r application is object recognition [16, 20, 25, 82, 109]. The model library stores<strong>the</strong> surface features of each object, and <strong>the</strong> corresponding scene object is found bycomparing those features.Discrete surface matching is difficult because two surfaces may have self occlusions,different s<strong>am</strong>pling resolutions, and are only partly overlapped, which makes statisticallybased features such as moments [67] difficult to apply. Because <strong>the</strong> local surfacegeometry characteristic is insensitive to <strong>the</strong> s<strong>am</strong>pling resolution, previous works in thisarea tried to use this information in <strong>the</strong> encoded form for point matching, especially16

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