A HYBRID METHOD TOWARDS THE SEGMENTATION OF RANGE IMAGES FOR 3-D OBJECT RECOGNITION

This paper presents a hybrid approach towards accomplishing the task of range image segmentation. It tends to combine region growing and one-dimensional orthogonal polynomial fitting techniques for the detection of edges in range images. Edges detected by such a method possesses good localisation property. This aids to steer the region growing process towards accomplishing accurate border partitioning. In addition, the incorporation of region growing process eliminates internal micro edges and provides for missing border reconstruction as it is able to detect weak edges. It is believed that the edge and segmentation maps produced, when conveyed to the higher level recognition process, may prove valuable not only for CAD based modeling purposes but may also aid to provide descriptive syntax to the object identification process.