3-D Data Collection, Analysis, and Applications

Cuneiform tablet scanned by a laser to capture its three dimensional shape. Fish skull, dorsal view, scanned by a laser. U.S. $0.01 coin scanned with a laser.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge of it is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced it to the stage of science.

— Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

— Dr Watson, the author, addressing Doyle, the author, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"

Some great classic computer vision books are available at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/, Ballard and Brown's Computer Vision Computer Vision, 1982; Batchelor and Whelan's Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, 1997; Fisher's From Surface To Objects: Computer Vision and Three Dimensional Scene Analysis, 1989; and Jain and Dubes' Algorithms for Clustering Data, 1988.


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