Reverse engineering (RE) deals with an enormous number of irregular and scattered digitized points that require intensive processing in order to reconstruct the surfaces of an object. Surface reconstruction of freefor...
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(纸本)0769512275
Reverse engineering (RE) deals with an enormous number of irregular and scattered digitized points that require intensive processing in order to reconstruct the surfaces of an object. Surface reconstruction of freeform objects is based on geometrical and topological criteria. Current fitting methods reconstruct an object using a bottom-up approach, from points to a dense mesh, and finally into smoothed connected freeform sub-surfaces. This type of reconstruction, however, can cause topological problems that lead to undesired surface fitting results. Such problems are particularly common with concave shapes. To avoid problems of this type, the paper proposes a new method that automatically detects the topological structure of an object as a base for surface fitting. The topological reconstruction method described in the paper is based on two stages: (1) creating 3D non-self-intersecting iso-curves from a 3D triangular mesh and (2) extracting a topological graph. The feasibility of the proposed topological reconstruction method is demonstrated on several examples using freeform objects with complex topologies.
Early detection of polyps has proven to lead to a decrease in incidence of colon cancer. In the past few years, virtual colonoscopy has been developed as a patient-friendly screening technique. The procedure comprises...
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Detecting the presence of people and suspicious objects are the essential tasks for security surveillance. This paper presents a new real-time system for this purpose. Two motion cues from background subtraction and t...
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Detecting the presence of people and suspicious objects are the essential tasks for security surveillance. This paper presents a new real-time system for this purpose. Two motion cues from background subtraction and temporal differencing are employed to not only get reliable motion detection but also identify detected objects in the scene. A fuzzy reasoning technique is developed to detect and locate motion objects from vertical projection of motion cues. The background model is updated on both pixel level and region level to adapt both slow illumination changes and sudden extraneous events. This new background maintenance technique makes the system able to work under varying environments. The system has been run round the clock in real scenes and the performance is very promising.
This paper presents a method to automatically calculate texture maps for a given 3D object from a sequence of images. It is used in our image-based modeling approach after the registration of the images and the geomet...
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This paper presents a method to automatically calculate texture maps for a given 3D object from a sequence of images. It is used in our image-based modeling approach after the registration of the images and the geometric modeling has been done. We show that the presented method uses the information from all images by implicitly applying a weighting function. Using this approach, the consideration of modeled occlusions as well as the detection and removal of non-modeled occlusions is accomplished. The final resolution of the texture maps can be adjusted on a pixel/cm basis.
This paper deals with vessel exploration based on computed tomography angiography. Large image sequences of the lower extremities are investigated in a clinical environment. Two different approaches for peripheral ves...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780372018
This paper deals with vessel exploration based on computed tomography angiography. Large image sequences of the lower extremities are investigated in a clinical environment. Two different approaches for peripheral vessel diagnosis dealing with stenosis and calcification detection are introduced. The paper presents an automated vessel-tracking tool for curved planar reformation. An interactive segmentation tool for bone removal is proposed.
Iterative algorithms based on runs, and runs of runs are presented to calculate the cells of the two-dimensional lattice intersected by a line of real slope and intercept. The technique is applied to the problem of tr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769509630
Iterative algorithms based on runs, and runs of runs are presented to calculate the cells of the two-dimensional lattice intersected by a line of real slope and intercept. The technique is applied to the problem of traversing a ray through a two-dimensional grid. Using runs or runs of runs provides a significant improvement in the efficiency of ray traversal for all but very short path lengths when compared to the DDA algorithm implemented using floating or fixed point arithmetic.
We present a powerful morphing technique based on level set methods, that can be combined with a variety of scan conversion/model processing techniques. Bringing these techniques together creates a general morphing ap...
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We present a powerful morphing technique based on level set methods, that can be combined with a variety of scan conversion/model processing techniques. Bringing these techniques together creates a general morphing approach that allows a user to morph a number of geometric model types in a single animation. We have developed techniques for converting several types of geometric models (polygonal meshes, CSG models and MRI scans) into distance volumes, the volumetric representation required by our level set morphing approach. The combination of these two capabilities allows a user to create a morphing sequence regardless of the model type of the source and target objects, freeing him/her to use whatever model type is appropriate for a particular animation.
Point sets obtained from computer vision techniques are often noisy and non-uniform. We present a new method of surface reconstruction that can handle such data sets using anisotropic basis functions. Our reconstructi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769511430
Point sets obtained from computer vision techniques are often noisy and non-uniform. We present a new method of surface reconstruction that can handle such data sets using anisotropic basis functions. Our reconstruction algorithm draws upon the work in variational implicit surfaces for constructing smooth and seamless 3D surfaces. Implicit functions are often formulated as a sum of weighted basis functions that are radially symmetric. Using radially symmetric basis functions inherently assumes, however that the surface to be reconstructed is, everywhere, locally symmetric. Such an assumption is true only at planar regions, and hence, reconstruction using isotropic basis is insufficient to recover objects that exhibit sharp features. We preserve sharp features using anisotropic basis that allow the surface to vary locally. The reconstructed surface is sharper along edges and at corner points. We determine the direction of anisotropy at a point by performing principal component analysis of the data points in a small neighborhood. The resulting field of principle directions across the surface is smoothed through tensor filtering. We have applied the anisotropic basis functions to reconstruct surfaces from noisy synthetic 3D data and from real range data obtained from space carving.
This paper presents a method for adaptive refinement within an integrated mechanically based CAE system. The system uses a mechanical B-spline finite element model for both geometric design and mechanical analysis. A ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769508537
This paper presents a method for adaptive refinement within an integrated mechanically based CAE system. The system uses a mechanical B-spline finite element model for both geometric design and mechanical analysis. A technique for locally refining a solution by B-spline finite elements is presented. The key component in the proposed method is the linear coordinate transformation introduced into the refined element. The transformation is constructed in such a way that the transformed nodal configuration of the refined element is identical to the nodal configuration of the neighbor elements. Therefore, the assembly proceeds in the regular fashion, while the C/sup 0/ continuity is forced along the inter-element boundary exactly. The proposed adaptive refinement method has been implemented both for surface and solid design without substantial differences in technical complexity. Its feasibility as applied to sculptured surface and solid objects is demonstrated by several examples.
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer; and colonic polyps are known precursors of that particular cancer. Virtual dissection refers to a display technique for polyp detection based on helical C...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9539676940
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer; and colonic polyps are known precursors of that particular cancer. Virtual dissection refers to a display technique for polyp detection based on helical CT data, where the colon is dissected and flattened as on the pathologist's table. The approach and image processing as well as the early experience are described in this paper.
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