In this paper we present a novel image-based 3D surface reconstruction technique that incorporates both reflectance and polarisation features into a variational framework. Our technique is especially suited for the difficult task of 3D reconstruction of rough metallic surfaces. An error functional consisting of several error terms related to the measured reflectance and polarisation properties ...

Implicit surface reconstruction has been a challenging work for decades. In this paper, motivated by the concept of classic physical polar field model and off-set points strategy, we present a new approach, called Field Fitting. In this approach, we express a 3D surface as an equipotential surface of scalar polar field which is produced by a number of paired field generating primitives, then a ...

TOF (Time-of-Flight) technology enables the real-time 3-D surface reconstruction of the current field of view of a TOF camera with a constant lateral resolution. We propose algorithms for the calibration of a TOF camera which in combination with rigidly mounted standard cameras enables the photorealistic 3-D surface reconstruction of the current field of view by registrating the optical centres...

We resolve the structure of a c(2x2) reconstruction of the rutile TiO2 (100) surface using a combination of transmission electron diffraction, direct methods analysis, and density functional theory. The surface structure contains an ordered array of subsurface oxygen vacancies and is in local thermodynamic equilibrium with bulk TiO2, but not the with oxygen gas-phase environment. The transition...

Surface reconstruction from contours is an important problem especially in medical applications. Other uses include reconstruction from topographic data, or isosurface generation in general. The drawback of existing reconstruction algorithms from contours is, that they are relatively complicated and often have numerical problems. Furthermore, algorithms to generate multiresolution surface model...

In this paper we present a novel image-based 3D surface reconstruction technique that incorporates reflectance, polarisation, and defocus information into a variational framework. Our technique is especially suited for the difficult task of 3D reconstruction of rough metallic surfaces. An error functional composed of several error terms related to the measured reflectance and polarisation prope...

This paper describes a method for surface reconstruction from sparse three-dimensional (3D) data that performs the reconstruction by building a sequence of surfaces approximating the data at increasing level of details (LOD). The method is simple, fast and suitable for a progressive 3D data/model representation, archiving, transmission. The surface reconstruction is obtained by a volumetric met...

As is well known that sensing and measuring the weld pool surface is very important to design intelligent welding machines which is able to imitate a skilled human welder who can choose suitable welding parameters. Therefore, in this paper, we concentrate the problem of weld pool surface 3D reconstruction, which is a key issue in intelligent welding machines development. Firstly, the framework ...

We discuss a coherent diffractive imaging experiment wherein the illuminating X-ray beam is divergent, rather than planar. By reconstructing the illumination at the sample, it is possible to recover the exit surface wave in that plane. With this geometry, the usual iterative reconstruction scheme converges very quickly, without finding the typical ambiguous solutions. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All r...

This paper uses a method for shape reconstruction of a 2-D homogeneous object with arbitrary geometry and known electrical properties. In this method, the object is illuminated by a Gaussian pulse, modulated with sinusoidal carrier plane wave and the time domains’ footprint signal due to object presence is used for the shape reconstruction. A nonlinear feedback loop is used to minimize the diff...