Statistical Approach to 3D Terrain Reconstruction

摘要

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.