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Recognition Of Quadric Surfaces From Range Data: An Analytical Approach, Ivan X. D. D'Cunha
Recognition Of Quadric Surfaces From Range Data: An Analytical Approach, Ivan X. D. D'Cunha
Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations
In this dissertation, a new technique based on analytic geometry for the recognition and description of three-dimensional quadric surfaces from range images is presented. Beginning with the explicit representation of quadrics, a set of ten coefficients are determined for various three-dimensional surfaces. For each quadric surface, a unique set of two-dimensional curves which serve as a feature set is obtained from the various angles at which the object is intersected with a plane. Based on a discriminant method, each of the curves is classified as a parabola, circle, ellipse, hyperbola, or a line. Each quadric surface is shown to be …