A new shape segmentation approach for active vision systems

A solution to extract 3-D shapes from a structured light image is presented. The 2-D striped image is segmented into regions corresponding to quadratic surfaces. A fuzzy analysis of the stripe´s properties allows one to locate discontinuities and to model stripe parts. These parts are tracked in consecutive images and matched in order to create regions. Segmentation results are presented which were obtained with a real scene consisting of multiple objects of arbitrary shapes