Abstract
An automatic 3D pair-wise registration method based on an optimal segmentation and a local character tensor is proposed. It consists of two characters, i.e., the optimal segmentation to realize the automatic processing and the local character tensor to improve the matching probability. Non-structured 3D datasets of a rabbit doll are tested on a PC with Intel Pentium M 1.60GHz and 512MB memory. Experiment results show the proposed method increases the matching probability average for 18.5% and decreases the computational time average for 21.6 second compared to those of the conventional spin image method.