Primary references on recognition and modeling using spin-images:

• Spin-Images: A Representation for 3-D Surface Matching. A. Johnson. doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1997.

• Using spin images for efficient object recognition in cluttered 3D scenes. A. Johnson and M. Hebert, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.21, no.5, May, 1999, p. 433-49.

• Surface matching for object recognition in complex three-dimensional scenes. A. Johnson and M. Hebert, Image and Vision Computing, vol.16, no.9-10, July 1998, p. 635-51.

• Efficient multiple model recognition in cluttered 3-D scenes. A. Johnson and M. Hebert, Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '98), June, 1998, p. 671-7.

• Recognizing objects by matching oriented points. A. Johnson and M. Hebert, Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '97), June, 1997, p. 684-9.

• Surface Registration by Matching Oriented Points. A. Johnson and M. Hebert, International Conference on Recent Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM '97), May, 1997, pp. 121-128.

• Registration and Integration of Textured 3-D Data, A. Johnson and S. Kang, tech. report CRL 96/4, Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Lab, October, 1996.

The Artisan Project:

• A System for Semi-automatic Modeling of Complex Environments, A. Johnson, R. Hoffman, J. Osborn, and M. Hebert, International Conference on Recent Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, May, 1997, pp. 213-220.

• 3-D object modeling and recognition for telerobotic manipulation, A. Johnson, P. Leger, R. Hoffman, M. Hebert, and J. Osborn, Proc. IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, August, 1995, pp. 103-110.

• Sensor Based Interior Modeling, M. Hebert, R. Hoffman, A. Johnson, and J. Osborn, American Nuclear Society 6th Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems (ANS '95), February, 1995, pp. 731 - 737.

Recent advances in recognition and modeling:

• Large Data Sets and Confusing Scenes in 3-D surface Matching and Recognition, O. Carmichael, D.F. Huber, and M. Hebert, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'99), October, 1999, pp. 358-367.

• A New Approach to 3-D Terrain Mapping, D.F. Huber and M. Hebert, Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS '99), IEEE, October, 1999, pp. 1121-1127.

• 3D Cueing: A Data Filter For Object Recognition, O. Carmichael and M. Hebert, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 1999.

• Toward a General 3-D Matching Engine: Multiple Models, Complex Scenes, and Efficient Data Filtering A. Johnson, O. Carmichael, D.F. Huber, and M. Hebert, Proceedings of the 1998 Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '98), November, 1998, pp. 1097-1107.

• Unconstrained Registration of Large 3D Point Sets for Complex Model Building, O. Carmichael and M. Hebert, Proceedings 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference On Intelligent Robotic Systems, 1998.

Additional references:

• On Generating Multi-resolution Representations of Polygonal Meshes, D. Zhang, M. Hebert, A. Johnson, and Y. Liu, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV '98), 1998.

• Registration and Integration of Textured 3-D Data, A. Johnson and S. Kang, International Conference on Recent Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM '97), May, 1997, pp. 234 - 241.

• Recognizing Objects by Matching Oriented Points, A. Johnson and M. Hebert, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1996.

• Simplifying Surfaces with Color and Texture using Quadric Error Metrics, M. Garland and P. Heckbert, Visualization '98, October, 1998.

• Control of Polygonal Mesh Resolution for 3-D Computer Vision, A. Johnson and M. Hebert, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-96-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1997.