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This paper describes an image segmentation and analysis technique based on three-dimensional information gathered by means of the stereo-photometric approach. It allows the measure of the attitude and area of surfaces whose optical properties are known. After a brief summary of the stereo-photometric theory and the description of the Extended Gaussian Image (EGI), we face the problem of the segmentation of the scene, by giving a solution based on the computation of the EGI. The results of the segmentation are then translated to a symbolical form in order to be interpreted by a tiny Prolog-written expert system.
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Carrioli, L., Cei, U., Diani, M. (1989). Recognition of polyhedra by photometric stereo. In: Cantoni, V., Creutzburg, R., Levialdi, S., Wolf, G. (eds) Recent Issues in Pattern Analysis and Recognition. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51815-0_57
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