A method for integrating range images with different resolutions for 3-D model construction

This paper proposes a new method for integrating range images with different resolutions to generate a whole surface model of a 3D object. Generally, a modeling method using range images needs an overlapping area between the images for the registration process. Accordingly, there are redundant data in the overlapping area. In order to produce a seamless and non-redundant model, we integrate the data, and represent the over-lapping area with triangular patches. However, few conventional methods have paid attention to integrating images with different resolutions. We propose a new integration method in which geometric and topological information are used. Experimental results show that our proposed method is efficient for integrating multiple range images.