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To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation ...

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AbstractThis <strong>dissertation</strong> presents a fr<strong>am</strong>ework for 3D reconstruction and scene analysis,using a set of range images. The motivation for developing this fr<strong>am</strong>ework c<strong>am</strong>e from<strong>the</strong> needs to reconstruct <strong>the</strong> surfaces of small mechanical parts in reverse engineeringtasks, build a virtual environment of indoor and outdoor scenes, and understand 3Dimages.The input of <strong>the</strong> fr<strong>am</strong>ework is a set of range images of an object or a scene capturedby range scanners. The output is a triangulated surface that can be segmentedinto meaningful parts.A textured surface can be reconstructed if color images areprovided. The fr<strong>am</strong>ework consists of surface smoothing, registration, integration, andsegmentation.Surface smoothing eliminates <strong>the</strong> noise present in raw measurements from rangescanners. This research proposes area-decreasing flow that is <strong>the</strong>oretically identical to<strong>the</strong> mean curvature flow. Using area-decreasing flow, <strong>the</strong>re is no need to estimate <strong>the</strong>curvature value and an optimal step size of <strong>the</strong> flow can be obtained. Crease edges andsharp corners are preserved by an adaptive scheme.Surface registration aligns measurements from different viewpoints in a commoncoordinate system. This research proposes a new surface representation scheme n<strong>am</strong>edpoint fingerprint.Surfaces are registered by finding corresponding point pairs in anoverlapping region based on fingerprint comparison.Surface integration merges registered surface patches into a whole surface. This rev

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