Reverse engineering (RE) has been widely applied in many segments of industry when
digital or geometric models of existing physical objects are unavailable. This paper details …

Surface reconstruction is a very challenging problem arising in a wide variety of applications
such as CAD design, data visualization, virtual reality, medical imaging, computer animation …

In this paper, a novel methodology is presented for optimal placement and selections of
knots, for approximating or fitting curves to data, using smoothing splines. It is well-known …

Reduced machining time and increased accuracy for a sculptured surface are both very
important when producing complicated parts, so, the step-size and tool-path interval are …

Özet Non-Uniform Rational B-spline (NURBS) is an industrial standard for Computer Aided
Design (CAD) model data representation. For constructing an CAD model from a physical …

Özet Gerçek dünyadaki çoğu nesnenin ve yüzeyin bilgisayar modelinin üretilmesinde farklı
yöntemler kullanılmaktadır. Bunlardan biri de uzaydaki dağıtık veri noktalarından (nokta …

Poor geometric quality is one of the main constraints that hinders the wide adoption of
reverse engineering (RE) and additive manufacturing (AM). RE models from a single scan …

ABSTRACT The application of Reverse Engineering (RE) is the need of various segments of
industries when advanced or mathematical models of existing products are inaccessible …

This PhD thesis is focused on the application of a powerful metaheuristics belonging to the
family of the artificial immune systems and called clonal selection algorithm (ClonalG) to …

This thesis is focused on the problem of curve and surface reconstruction from a given set
(usually massive) of (generally noisy) data points. We assume that the data points come …