Surface integrations from multiple range images

A method for reconstruction of 3D object models from multiple views of range image is proposed. It is very important to use these partially redundant data effectively to get an integrated, complete and accurate object model. The object shape is unconstrained, curved surfaces are allowed. From each view of range image, surfaces are segmented and fitted into planar and quadratic patches by a robust residual analysis method (we address this method in another paper). Analyzing the errors of fitted surfaces from each view, the final expressions of the surfaces are merged from every view. A boundary representative model (B-rep) is used to express the final complete object. The method can be used to create 3D models for object recognition.