摘要 |
A method of aligning three-dimensional models (10) including: receiving one or more point clouds (12) each indicative of a three-dimensional model (10); sampling a representative data set (14) from the point clouds (12); solving for a set of possible local alignment error minima (16) of the representative data sets (14); selecting a representative minimum (18) from the set of possible local minima (16); and solving for a global minima (20) in alignment of the point clouds (12) using the representative minima (18) as an initial estimate. |