3D Object Modeling - Issues and Techniques

This chapter provides an overview of 3D object modeling approaches. It begins by briefly describing the issues in 3D object modeling and their impact on the quality of the resulting model. Then it looks in depth on classical 3D object modeling techniques and what they involve. It discusses advantages and disadvantages and gives possible applications for each described method. The presentation is not meant to be exhaustive and it only provides a background for the study of neural networks in the context of 3D object modeling. The chapter ends up by discussing several neural architectures and examining their use in object modeling.

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