… Examples include generalized cylinders [11], super quadrics [… equations (ODEs) to estimate
the rigid registration parameters … the alignment problem of two preregistered ear impression …

… scanner, and in the case of ear impression scanning we know one axis of … Since the
implementation is rather fast, <2min for rigid … The intention is to align the two impressions from …

… set of laser scanned ear impressions and a sparse set of … meshes are aligned by a
generalised Procrustes analysis [18… in the Procrustes alignment while a rigid-body transformation …

… of the ear canal on a statistical shape model of the ear canal … then aligned using the
Generalized Procrustes Alignment [7] … in ear scans, even though the shapes of the ear impressions …

… are aligned to the average shape from the shape model and … model is based on a set of 29
laser scanned ear impressions. … The size-and-shape model is used and therefore Tf is a rigid-…

… be from both laser scanned ear impressions as well as from … a 3D model from such a
scanner, the first step is to align and … is rigid and has 6 degrees of freedom in 3D consisting of a …

… in the quality of ear impressions and the continued dependence on … rigid-body alignment
is used, the result is a size-andshape model and if a similarity-transform is used in the alignment…

… evaluation reveals a generalization ability of 0.17 mm and a … [41] to construct a statistical
shape model of the human ear canal… Lastly, our rigid alignment needs to be improved to be able …

… physical models and with the OrthoCAD™ software (Align … of the human face from ear to ear
without direct contact or risks to the … Facial average methods like the Generalized Procrustes …

… ear images and then uses Generalized Procrustes Analysis and Iterative Closest Point (GPA-ICP)-based
matching technique for final alignment… snake and ovoid models. This technique …