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Recommended Reading
These books are all recommended reading for the project. If you buy them from the links below, amazon donates a portion of the profit to support the project.



Papers and Articles
The following papers and articles represent a cross section of the research undertaken for the 3D scanner. This list is not comprehensive, but should give a general grounding in the science required for understanding the technology.

Davis, J. & Chen, X. (2001),A Laser Range Scanner Designed for Minimum Calibration Complexity., in '3DIM', pp. 91-98.
Silva, L.; Bellon, O.R.P. & Boyer, K.L. (2003),Enhanced, Robust Genetic Algorithms for Multiview Range Image Registration., in '3DIM', pp. 268-275.
Abrash, M. (1994), Zen and the Art of Code Optimisation, Coriolis Groop Press.
Aguado, M.N.A. (2005), Feature Extraction and Image Processing, Elsevier.
Bergevin, R.; Soucy, M.; Gagnon, H. & Laurendeau, D. (1996), 'Towards a General Multi-View Registration Technique', IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 18(5), 540--547.
Blume, H.S.H. (2000), One and Multidimensional Signal Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd..
Brown, M.S. & Seales, W.B. (2000),Beyond 2D images: effective 3D imaging for library materials, in 'DL '00: Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries', ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 27--36.
Curless, B. & Levoy, M. (1995),Better optical triangulation through spacetime analysis, in 'ICCV '95: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision', IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 987.
Curless, B.L. (1997),'New Methods for Surface Reconstruction from Range Images'(CSL-TR-97-733), 206.
Davis, J.; Marschner, S.; Garr, M. & Levoy, M. (2002),'Filling holes in complex surfaces using volumetric difusion'.
Dey, T.K.; Giesen, J. & Hudson, J. (2001),Delaunay based shape reconstruction from large data, in 'PVG '01: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics', IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, pp. 19--27.
Dey, T.K. & Goswami, S. (2004), 'Provable surface reconstruction from noisy samples', , 330--339.
Dey, T.K. & Goswami, S. (2003), 'Tight Cocone: A water-tight surface reconstructor', , 127--134.
Edelsbrunner, H. (2001), Geometry and Topology for Mesh Generation, Cambridge University Press.
Hoppe, H.; DeRose, T.; Duchamp, T.; McDonald, J. & Stuetzle, W. (1993), 'Mesh Optimization', Computer Graphics 27(Annual Conference Series), 19--26.
I. L.; G. N. & M., L. (2003),A Hierarchical Method for Aligning Warped Meshes, in 'Proc. 4th International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM)', pp. 434--441.
Levoy, M.; Pulli, K.; Curless, B.; Rusinkiewicz, S.; Koller, D.; Pereira, L.; Ginzton, M.; Anderson, S.; Davis, J.; Ginsberg, J.; Shade, J. & Fulk, D. (2000),The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues, in Kurt Akeley, ed.,'Siggraph 2000, Computer Graphics Proceedings', ACM Press / ACM SIGGRAPH / Addison Wesley Longman, , pp. 131--144.
Lindstrom, P. & Silva, C.T. (2001),A memory insensitive technique for large model simplification, in 'VIS '01: Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01', IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 121--126.
Lowe, D. (2003),'Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints'.
Lyons, P.; Rioux, M. & Patterson, R. (),'Application of a Three-dimensional Color Laser Scanner'.
van Nieuwenhuizen, P.R.; Kiewiet, O. & Bronsvoort, W.F. (1994), 'An Integrated Line Tracking and Vectorization Algorithm.', Comput. Graph. Forum 13(3), 349-359.
Parker, J.R. (1997), Algorithms for Image Processing and Computer Vison, John Wiley and Son, Ltd..
Pratt, I.D.F.M.J. (1985), Computational Geometry for Design and Manufacture, Ellis Horwood.
Pulli, K. (1999),'Multiview Registration for Large Data Sets'.
Remondino, F. (2003), 'From point cloud to surface: the modeling and visualization problem', International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XXXIV-5/W10.
Rusinkiewicz, S.; Holt, O.H. & Levoy, M. (2002), 'Real-Time 3D Model Acquisition', ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3), 438--446.
Steger, C. (1998), 'An Unbiased Detector of Curvilinear Structures', IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 20(2), 113-125.
Turk, G. & Levoy, M. (1994),Zippered polygon meshes from range images, in 'SIGGRAPH '94: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques', ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 311--318.
Wahl, R.; Guthe, M. & Klein, R. (2005),Identifying Planes in Point-Clouds for Efficient Hybrid Rendering, in 'The 13th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications'.
Zhao, C.; Mohr, R. & Quan, L. (1993),Global Surface Reconstruction Through Regularized B-Spline Patches, in 'Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Geometric Methods in Computer Vision II, San Diego, California, USA', pp. 134--145.
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