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A computational strategy is suggested for images obtained from a laser range finding scanner. The scanned scenes may contain many objects of arbitrary sizes and in arbitrary positions and orientations. No a priori information is available on scene contents but the scenes are assumed to be “man-made”. The computations are mathematically very simple but many steps have to be carried out to discover scene contents. The procedures are practical only if appropriate hardware is designed. The paper also discusses philosophical aspects of image understanding as applied to range images.
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Kasvand, T. (1988). Understanding Unconventional Images. In: Cantoni, V., Di Gesù, V., Levialdi, S. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1007-5_4
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