A methodology for surface reconstruction of concealed objects

A methodology is presented that uses span length between contours´ data points to determine elementary tiles, addresses pathological problems that could occur, and uses contour corner points to reconstruct the surface. This methodology will use additional points along the contour, if necessary, to properly represent the boundary and will also use a smoothed boundary, obtained from applying MFA (mean field annealing), to reconstruct the surface. Distance is used as the metric in determining an appropriate solution. This metric was used because the primary application of the method is for reconstructing objects inside luggage, which requires a fast solution. Corner points from one contour were mapped to the other contour. The results do not produce a Eulerian path and additional span lengths had to be added to the graph. The method addressed pathological problems that could occur in reconstructing the object by solving for the contours´ center and using the offset of the center in mapping corner points. MFA was applied to produce a smooth boundary for corner point detection