A Coarse to Fine 3D Registration Method based on Robust Fuzzy Clustering
 Abstract 
An important problem in computer vision is to determine how features extracted 
from images are connected to an existing model. In this paper, we focus 
on solving the  registration problem, i.e. obtaining rigid
transformation parameters between several 3D data sets, whether partial or 
exhaustive. The difficulty of this problem is to obtain a method which is 
robust with respect to outliers and at the same time accurate. We present a 
general method performing robust 
3D localization and fitting based on a fuzzy clustering method. The fuzzy set 
approach 
is known for its practical efficiency in uncertain environments. To illustrate 
the advantages of this approach on the registration problem, we show results 
on synthetic and real 3D data. 
 Reference
@ARTICLE{jpt-cviu98,
   author  = {Tarel, J.-P. and Boujemaa, N.},
   title   = {A Coarse to Fine 3D Registration Method Based on Robust Fuzzy Clustering},
   journal = {Computer Vision and Image Understanding},
   volume  = {73},
   number  = {1},
   month   = jan,
   pages   = {14--28},
   year	   = 1999,
   note    = {http://perso.lcpc.fr/tarel.jean-philippe/publis/cviu99.html}
}
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