A Statistical Approach to 3D Terrain Reconstruction

Abstract

This report summarizes the work and accomplishments of the University of Utah on the ONR grant N00014-01-1-0033 entitled "A Statistical Approach To 3D Terrain Reconstruction". The report, as agreed with the Program Officer, Dr. L. Rosenblum, is the same as the presentation of the final meeting for this project, and consists of a series of slides with notes that explain the meaning of each slide. The report describes the motivation and overall goals of the project, presents results from this work, lists the publications that have resulted from this grant, and describes the mechanisms by which technology has been disseminated. This project addresses the question of surface reconstruction, particularly with the application of visualizing and analyzing terrain data. Results include fundamental developments in how to formulate the problem of surface fitting and smoothing and engineering developments, including fast algorithms on specialized hardware.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 19, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423778

Entities

People

  • Ross T. Whitaker

Organizations

  • University of Utah

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Curvature
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Engineering
  • Graphics
  • Image Processing
  • Measurement
  • Signal Processing
  • Three Dimensional
  • Universities
  • Visualizations

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