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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
U.s. Army Research Laboratory Attn: Rdrl-loc-i, Adelphi, MD (US);
Gorden W. Videen, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Kristan P. Gurton, Olney, MD (US);
Alexey J. Yuffa, Silver Spring, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for modeling a three-dimensional topological surface of an object acquiring, using a thermal imaging camera, a first image of the object, wherein the first image comprises a plurality of pixels each representative of at least one component of thermal data, calculating a normal vector for each pixel in the first image, corresponding to the normal vector on a surface of the object, generating a three-dimensional model representing a surface of the object based on aggregating the normal vector for each pixel together in the first image.