Adaptive reconstruction of free-form surfaces using Bernstein basis function networks

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 577-588

  Knopf, George K ^a   Kofman, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

B zier surfaces; Bernstein basis function network; Bernstein polynomials; Function approximation; Neural networks; Parametric modeling; Surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLYNOMIALS;

BERNSTEIN BASIS FUNCTION NETWORK;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0035494119     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-1976(01)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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