Extraction of parametric descriptions of circular GCS from a pair of contours for 3-D shape recognition

摘要

This paper addresses the issue of recognizing 3-D (three-dimensional) shapes of objects from their 2-D contour pairs. A shape model, that is represented by a family of spheres of varying radii with their centers on its axis, is developed for the shape class of circular Generalized Cones (GCs) with a space-curved axis. The quasi-invariant property of the shape model is defined and is used to recover the 3-D shapes of the object class by solving the problem of stereo-matching between their contour pairs. The recovered shapes are represented by a set of their parametric primitives and spatial relations between them, so that they may be used for recognition even under occluded environment.