Area and volume measurements of objects with irregular shapes using multiple silhouettes

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Lee, D J ^a   Xu, Xiaoqian ^a   Eifert, Joseph ^b   Zhan, Pengcheng ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D wire frame model; Machine vision; Radial projection; Silhouette based reconstruction; Surface approximation; Surface area measurement

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALIBRATION; CURVE FITTING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

RADIAL PROJECTION; SILHOUETTE-BASED RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE APPROXIMATION; SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 33748593620     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2166847     Document Type: Article

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