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Published on: December 3, 2013
Point fingerprint: a new 3-D object representation scheme
Yiyong Sun1, Joonki Paik, A Koschan
1Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Abstract:
This paper proposes a new, efficient surface representation method for surface matching. A feature carrier for a surface point, which is a set of two-dimensional (2-D) contours that are the projections of geodesic circles on the tangent plane, is generated. The carrier is named point fingerprint because its pattern is similar to human fingerprints and plays a role in discriminating surface points. Corresponding points on surfaces from different views are found by comparing their fingerprints. The point fingerprint is able to carry curvature, color, and other information which can improve matching accuracy, and the matching process is faster than 2-D image comparison. A novel candidate point selection method based on the fingerprint irregularity is introduced. Point fingerprint is successfully applied to pose estimation of real range data.
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