Novel applications and designs showcase the power and potential of 3D printing and
additive manufacturing of metal. This chapter identifies the market segments where AM is …

Reverse Engineering (RE) is a long-term goal of engineering and computer science; it aims
at the reconstruction of CAD models from measured data by means of 3D mathematical …

Template-Based reverse engineering approaches represent a relatively poorly explored
strategy in the field of CAD reconstruction from polygonal models. Inspired by recent works …

In an industrial context, most manufactured objects are designed using CAD (Computer-
Aided Design) software. For visualization, data exchange or manufacturing applications, the …

R years have witnessed the success of deep learning [1] in many fields like computer vision
[2], natural language process [3] and robotics [4][5]. Such data-driven methods can …

Increasing competitive pressure within industries producing long-living, cost intensive
products drive the need to optimize product life cycles in terms of faster time to market …

An automated reverse engineering process is developed that uses a structured light optical
measurement system to collect dense point cloud geometry representations. The modeling …

Background Reliable quantitative data are required to address the unpredictability of facial
autologous fat grafting (AFG). Facial evaluation by 3D scanning technology is getting …

The current design of aerodynamic shapes, like airfoils, involves computationally intensive
simulations to explore the possible design space. Usually, such design relies on the prior …

In order to extract a construction tree from a finite set of points sampled on the surface of an
object, we present an evolutionary algorithm that evolves set-theoretic expressions made of …