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Automatic reconstruction of 3D objects from 2D orthographic views has been a major research issue in CAD/CAM. In this paper, two accelerating techniques to improve the efficiency of reconstruction are presented. First, some pseudo elements are removed by depth and topology information as soon as the wire-frame is constructed, which reduces the searching space. Second, the proposed algorithm does not establish all possible surfaces in the process of generating 3D faces. The surfaces and edge loops are generated by using the relationship between the boundaries of 3D faces and their projections. This avoids the growth in combinational complexity of previous methods that have to check all possible pairs of 3D candidate edges.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.69902004 and the NKBRSF of China under grant No.G1998030600.
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Liu, S., Hu, S. & Sun, J. Two accelerating techniques for 3D reconstruction. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 17, 362–368 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02947315
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