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Chapter 1

Introduction

Reinhard Koch, Nick Pears, and Yonghuai Liu

Abstract 3D Imaging, Analysis and Applications is a comprehensive textbook on 3D shape capture, 3D shape processing and how such capture and processing can be used. Eleven chapters cover a broad range of concepts, algorithms and applications and they are split into three parts, as follows: Part I, 3D Imaging and Shape Representation, presents techniques for capture, representation and visualization of 3D data; Part II, 3D Shape Analysis and Processing presents feature-based methods of analysis, registration and shape matching and, finally, Part III, 3D Imaging Applications presents application areas in 3D face recognition, remote sensing and medical imaging. This introduction provides the reader with historical and background information, such as that relating to the development of computer vision; in particular, the development of automated 3D imaging. It briefly discusses general depth estimation principles for 3D imaging, details a selection of seminal papers, sketches applications of 3D imaging and concludes with an outline of the book’s remaining chapters.

1.1 Introduction

Three-dimensional (3D) imaging seeks to capture the 3D structure of scenes and objects within our environment. The computed set of data points in 3D space is often accompanied by color-texture information in the form of a registered 2D image, typically obtained from standard digital image capture. Such 3D data, with or

R. Koch ( )

Institute of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany e-mail: rk@informatik.uni-kiel.de

N. Pears

Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York YO10 5GH, UK e-mail: nick.pears@york.ac.uk

Y. Liu

Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK

e-mail: yyl@aber.ac.uk

N. Pears et al. (eds.), 3D Imaging, Analysis and Applications,

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DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-4063-4_1, © Springer-Verlag London 2012