Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Objects through Matching of Their Parts

The problem of reassembling an object from its parts or fragments has never been addressed with a unified computational approach, which depends on the pure geometric form of the parts and not application-specific features. We propose a method for the automatic reconstruction of a model based on the geometry of its parts, which may be computergenerated models or range-scanned models. The matching process can benefit from any other external constraint imposed by the specific application. Index Terms – Object reconstruction, complementary matching, depth buffer, virtual assemblage