Special Issue on Registration and Fusion of Range Images

This special issue contains nine high quality papers representative of the state-of-the art technologies used to acquire and process range image data. Following the call for papers, 23 manuscripts were received which were reviewed by a pool of 37 expert referees. We are thankful to these anonymous referees for their invaluable work which, as ever, is essential to maintain the high standards of CVIU. All selected papers carry an element of novelty, and we hope that this issue will be useful to theoreticians and practitioners alike.

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