David W. Eggert, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon and Robert B. Fisher. Simultaneous registration of multiple range views for use in reverse engineering . For the moment being, still no papers from 3D Vision for Surface Metrology project at Purdue Robot Vision Laboratory . Marc Levoy and his students work on a 3D fax machine project. A volumetric method for building complex models from range images.
Alpha shapes describe the shape of a finite set of points.
See Ernst M cke 's and Patrick J. Moran 's pages. Closed Object Boundaries from Scattered Points . See also the above paper by Brian Curless and Marc Levoy. 3D Scene Reconstruction and Object Recognition . Joe Warren 's research focuses on subdivision of triangulated surfaces and wavelets .