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Tomographic reconstruction of transparent objects

Authors:

Borislav Trifonov,

Wolfgang HeidrichAuthors Info & Claims

EGSR '06: Proceedings of the 17th Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques

Pages 51 - 60

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The scanning of 3D geometry has become a popular way of capturing the shape of real-world objects. Transparent objects, however, pose problems for traditional scanning methods. We present a visible light tomographic reconstruction method for recovering the shape of transparent objects, such as glass. Our setup is relatively simple to implement, and accounts for refraction, which can be a significant problem in visible light tomography.

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Tomographic reconstruction of transparent objects
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
    2. Rendering

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EGSR '06: Proceedings of the 17th Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques

June 2006

417 pages

ISBN:3905673355

Editors:
Tomas Akenine-Möller
Lund University
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Wolfgang Heidrich
The University of British Columbia

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Tel Aviv Univ.: Tel Aviv University
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