Range Scan Registration Using Reduced Deformable Models

dc.contributor.authorChang, W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorZwicker, M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-23T10:16:10Z
dc.date.available2015-02-23T10:16:10Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractWe present an unsupervised method for registering range scans of deforming, articulated shapes. The key idea is to model the motion of the underlying object using a reduced deformable model. We use a linear skinning model for its simplicity and represent the weight functions on a regular grid localized to the surface geometry. This decouples the deformation model from the surface representation and allows us to deal with the severe occlusion and missing data that is inherent in range scan data. We formulate the registration problem using an objective function that enforces close alignment of the 3D data and includes an intuitive notion of joints. This leads to an optimization problem that we solve using an efficient EM-type algorithm. With our algorithm we obtain smooth deformations that accurately register pairs of range scans with significant motion and occlusion. The main advantages of our approach are that it does not require user specified markers, a template, nor manual segmentation of the surface geometry into rigid parts.en_US
dc.description.number2en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume28en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01384.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages447-456en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01384.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.titleRange Scan Registration Using Reduced Deformable Modelsen_US
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