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Fourth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM '03)
Parallel Alignment of a Large Number of Range Images
Banff, Alberta, Canada
October 06-October 10
ISBN: 0-7695-1991-1
Takeshi Oishi, The University of Tokyo
Ryusuke Sagawa, Osaka University
Atsushi Nakazawa, Osaka University
Ryo Kurazume, Kyushu University
Katsushi Ikeuchi, The University of Tokyo
This paper describes a method for parallel alignment of multiple range images. It is difficult to align a large number of range images simultaneously. Therefore, we developed the parallel method to improve the time and memory performances of the alignment process. Although a general simultaneous alignment algorithm searches correspondences for all pairs of all range images by rejecting redundant dependencies, our method makes it possible to accelerate computation time and reduce the amount of memory used. Since the computation between two range images can be preformed independently, each correspondence pair of range images is assigned to each node. Because the computation time is proportional to the number of vertices assigned to each node, by assigning the pairs so that the number of vertices computed is equal on each node, the load on each node is effectively distributed. The heuristic algorithms for graph partitioning are applied to this problem in order to reduce the amount of memory used on each node. The method was tested on a 16 processor PC cluster, where it demonstrated the high extendibility and the performance improvement in time and memory.
Citation:
Takeshi Oishi, Ryusuke Sagawa, Atsushi Nakazawa, Ryo Kurazume, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Parallel Alignment of a Large Number of Range Images," 3dim, pp.195, Fourth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM '03), 2003
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