Computer Description of Curved Objects

By Gerald J. Agin, Thomas O. Binford. 1973

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Lifting Object Detection Datasets into 3D (2015, background): “Instead, their model searches the training set for patches similar to those in the test image, then transfers the associated depth information.”
Sphere tracing: a geometric method for the antialiased ray tracing of implicit surfaces (1996, methodology): “Generalized cylinders , began as a geometric representation in computer vision (Agin and Binford 1976), but have also matured into a standard modeling primitive in computer graphics (Bloomenthal and Wyvill 1990) — special ray-tracing algorithms were developed for their rendering in (Wijk 1984;…”
A review of vessel extraction techniques and algorithms (2004, background): “Binford [119], [120] introduced the use of GC in vision applications.”
Object Recognition in the Geometric Era: A Retrospective (2006, background): “Agin developed a structured light range camera and used generalized cylinders to model various curved shapes, such as dolls.”
RECOVERING INTRINSIC SCENE CHARACTERISTICS FROM IMAGES (1978, background): “Agin and Binford [ 1 ] proposed a specific representation of three-dimensional surfaces, as generalized cylinders, and described a system for extracting such representations using a laser rangefinder.”
A Survey Of Free-Form Object Representation and Recognition Techniques (2001, background): “plane normal to the axis at s and defining the boundary of the primitive along the axis [1, 81].”
High-accuracy stereo depth maps using structured light (2003, methodology): “Random light patterns have sometimes been used to provide artificial texture to stereo-based range sensing systems [14].”