Estimating the next sensor position based on surface characteristics

In order to reconstruct the viewable surface of an object completely, multiple views of the same object have to be used and integrated into a common coordinate system. One of the major problems of the 3D surface reconstruction using a turntable, is the varying resolution in the direction to the camera, due to the varying distance of object points to the rotational axis of the turntable. To guarantee a uniform object resolution, we calculate the next angle dynamically, depending on the entropy of the surface part actually acquired. To minimize the loss of information and to guarantee a uniform surface resolution, we derive a relation between the entropy and the next viewing angle, based on the profile sections acquired in the last two steps of the acquisition