Title: Degenerative changes in the cervical spine with a focus on the intervertebral disc prolapse and its verification using imaging methods and 3D model Objectives: The aim of this work is to describe the problems of degenerative changes in the cervical spine with a focus on the intervertebral disc prolapse. The second part deals with the possibility of imaging methods that are able to detect pathological processes. Part of this work is the study of three cases of patients with a diagnosis of disc herniation. In conclusion, there are some possibilities of 3D modeling of the cervical spine. Methods: The theoretical part is based on the available literature. Images from MRI were obtained from medical facilities in Prague, described and assessed by a specialist. After studying the functions suitable graphical programs were created 3D models of the cervical spine. Results: Degenerative changes in the cervical spine naturally come from the aging of the organism, but a number of modifiable factors accelerating the onset. Among such factors include especially hypokinesia and unilateral overloading of cervical spine. Modern imaging techniques can in detail detect these pathological processes, but are limited by the patient's position during the investigation. The resulting series of images are used as...

<p>We present a geometrical and mathematical solution to a problem faced in the glass industry in this work. Volume measurement of the glass gob is vital in making glassware. Geometric models were used to represent the glass gob.</p><p>A line scan camera system takes the images of the glass gob and the volume information of the glass gob is obtained by the image processing in the industry. This work is carried out to implement a simulator which estimates the change in the volume measurement of glass gob through line scan when it is rotated or when its shape is changed. A mixture of graphical and mathematical approaches is used to carry out this study. Geometric models have been used to represent the different gob models. Geometric models facilitate the manipulation of volumetric data.A simple and effective technique is used in this work. The problem is divided into steps. Volume measurement through a line scan technique is simulated. An easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) is designed to interact with the gob model and check the results of volume measurements.We present a geometrical and mathematical solution to a problem faced in the glass industry in this work. Volume measurement of the glass gob is vital in making glassware. Geometric models were used to represent the glass gob.A line scan camera system takes the images of the glass gob and the volume information of the glass gob is obtained by the image processing in the industry.This work is carried out to implement a simulator which estimates the change in the volume measurement of glass gob through line scan when it is rotated or when its shape is changed. A mixture of graphical and mathematical approaches is used to carry out this study. Geometric models have been used to represent the different gob models. Geometric models facilitate the manipulation of volumetric data.</p><p>A simple and effective technique is used in this work. The problem is divided into steps. Volume measurement through a line scan technique is simulated. An easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) is designed to interact with the gob model and check the results of volume measurements.</p>

<p>In 1776, the City of Gävle was immersed in a blazing fire, almost the whole city burned down and buildings that managed to survived have either been demolished or replaced by another one. To provide an actual view of Gävle from 1800-century is difficult due to the three different fires. A three-dimensional visualization model presents the entire city between 1776-1815 as it might have appeared. Archival images and information was provided from Länsmusem Gävleborg, Fogden, City library of Gävle and the City Archive. The three-dimensional model of the entire city is presented in a QuickTime movie format for viewing.</p>

<p>Vid exploatering av mark måste ofta stora volymer jordmassor schaktas bort för grundläggning av hus och anläggning av ledningar och vägar. Dessa jordmassor skickas många gånger till en deponi, vilket orsakar emissioner av miljö- och hälsofarliga gaser från transporter, förbrukning av naturmaterial och innebär även en ekonomisk kostnad.</p><p>I Johannelund i västra Stockholm har Stockholms stad planerat ett nytt bostadsområde, och stora mängder jordmassor kommer att behöva schaktas bort under exploateringen. Stockholms stad lät skapa en miljögeoteknisk 3D-modell för att få en översikt över markkvaliteten och bestämma vilka massor som kunde återanvändas för utfyllnad inom området. Med en miljögeoteknisk 3D-modell menas här en CAD-modell i 3D baserad på provtagningar, geotekniska undersökningar och planerad bebyggelse i området. Då detta examensarbete påbörjades var planeringen av Johannelundsprojektet klar och 3D-modellen skapad, men själva bygget hade ännu inte påbörjats.</p><p>Syftet med detta examensarbete var att avgöra om miljögeotekniska 3D-modeller bör användas i <em>framtida</em> exploateringsprojekt, och målet var att utvärdera och ge råd om framtida användning av modellen samt att undersöka möjligheterna med att återanvända schaktmassor. En fallstudie gjordes av Johannelundsprojektet där de miljömässiga och ekonomiska konsekvenserna av masshanteringen utvärderades och åsikter om problematiken undersöktes genom intervjuer med myndigheter och intressenter. Vidare bestämdes det underlag som behövs till modellen och en lämplig arbetsordning togs fram. Denna information baserades på beräkningar, eget arbete i 3D-modellen samt intervjuer med involverade i Johannelundsprojektet.</p><p>Utvärderingen av Johannelundsprojektet visade att återanvändningen av schaktmassor reducerade kostnader för masshantering med 67 % och emissioner från transporter med 85 % jämfört med om den totala volymen schaktmassor skulle ha skickats på deponi. Vidare visade intervjuerna att myndigheter och intressenter har vitt skilda åsikter vad gäller riktvärden, hantering av schaktmassor och miljögeotekniska 3D-modeller. Studien visade även att om arbetet med 3D-modellen ska bli lyckat krävs bland annat ett fullgott dataunderlag och investering i viss kunskapsutveckling hos personalen.</p><p>3D-modeller används allt mer inom samhällsbyggnad, och stora ekonomiska och miljömässiga vinster kan göras genom verktygets möjlighet till effektiv planering och kommunikation. Användning av en miljögeoteknisk 3D-modell rekommenderas i framtida byggprojekt där det förekommer ställvis förhöjda halter av markföroreningar och en omfattande volym schaktmassor beräknas uppkomma.</p> / <p>Land development can cause a great deal of excessive soil masses due to shafting. The total volume of excessive soil is many times transported to a landfill, causing gas emissions, use of natural resources and a significant economical cost.</p><p>In a land development project in the area of Johannelund in Stockholm much of the soil masses were planned to be reused instead. To overview the soil quality and decide on what soil masses to reuse and where an Environmental 3D Model for Land Development was used by the City of Stockholm. This means a 3D Model based on soil samples, geotechnical investigations and planned shafting. When the work with this thesis begun the Project Johannelund was already planned and the 3D Model had been created, but the land development had yet not been started.</p><p>The aim of this thesis was to decide if Environmental 3D Models should be used in <em>future</em> land development projects, and the goals were to evaluate the model, give advice on future use and to investigate the possibilities to reuse soil masses. A case study of the environmental and economical effects of reusing soil masses in the Project Johannelund was done. Public authorities and stakeholders were interviewed and advices on how to use Environmental 3D Models were given, this includes the data needed to create a model as well as a suggested way of work. The information is based on calculations, personal experience with the 3D Model and interviews with people involved in the Project Johannelund.</p><p>The evaluation of the Project Johannelund showed that the reuse of soil masses reduced the costs of transports and land fill fees with 67 %, and the gas emissions from transports with 85 %. The opinions of public authorities and stakeholders vary greatly. Advices on how to use the Environmental 3D Model includes a thorough database and that the staff will need support in order to use the 3D Model properly.</p><p>3D Models are used to a larger and larger extent in Urban Management. There are economical and environmental benefits with using the Environmental 3D Model for a more efficient project planning and communication. The City of Stockholm is recommended to use the 3D Model in future land development projects with heterogeneous soil contamination and a large volume of expected excessive soil masses.</p>

In this text, we present two stereo-based head tracking techniques along with a fast 3D model acquisition system. The first tracking technique is a robust implementation of stereo-based head tracking designed for interactive environments with uncontrolled lighting. We integrate fast face detection and drift reduction algorithms with a gradient-based stereo rigid motion tracking technique. Our system can automatically segment and track a user's head under large rotation and illumination variations. Precision and usability of this approach are compared with previous tracking methods for cursor control and target selection in both desktop and interactive room environments. The second tracking technique is designed to improve the robustness of head pose tracking for fast movements. Our iterative hybrid tracker combines constraints from the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) algorithm and normal flow constraint. This new technique is more precise for small movements and noisy depth than ICP alone, and more robust for large movements than the normal flow constraint alone. We present experiments which test the accuracy of our approach on sequences of real and synthetic stereo images. The 3D model acquisition system we present quickly aligns intensity and depth images, and reconstructs a textured 3D mesh. 3D views are registered with shape alignment based on our iterative hybrid tracker. We reconstruct the 3D model using a new Cubic Ray Projection merging algorithm which takes advantage of a novel data structure: the linked voxel space. We present experiments to test the accuracy of our approach on 3D face modelling using real-time stereo images.

With the aid of modern sensors it is possible to create models of buildings. These sensorstypically generate 3D point clouds and in order to increase interpretability and usability,these point clouds are often translated into 3D models.In this thesis a way of translating a 3D point cloud into a 3D model is presented. The basicfunctionality is implemented using Matlab. The geometric model consists of floors, wallsand ceilings. In addition, doors and windows are automatically identified and integrated intothe model. The resulting model also has an explicit representation of the topology betweenentities of the model. The topology is represented as a graph, and to do this GraphML isused. The graph is opened in a graph editing program called yEd.The result is a 3D model that can be plotted in Matlab and a graph describing the connectivitybetween entities. The GraphML file is automatically generated in Matlab. An interfacebetween Matlab and yEd allows the user to choose which rooms should be plotted.

Vid exploatering av mark måste ofta stora volymer jordmassor schaktas bort för grundläggning av hus och anläggning av ledningar och vägar. Dessa jordmassor skickas många gånger till en deponi, vilket orsakar emissioner av miljö- och hälsofarliga gaser från transporter, förbrukning av naturmaterial och innebär även en ekonomisk kostnad. I Johannelund i västra Stockholm har Stockholms stad planerat ett nytt bostadsområde, och stora mängder jordmassor kommer att behöva schaktas bort under exploateringen. Stockholms stad lät skapa en miljögeoteknisk 3D-modell för att få en översikt över markkvaliteten och bestämma vilka massor som kunde återanvändas för utfyllnad inom området. Med en miljögeoteknisk 3D-modell menas här en CAD-modell i 3D baserad på provtagningar, geotekniska undersökningar och planerad bebyggelse i området. Då detta examensarbete påbörjades var planeringen av Johannelundsprojektet klar och 3D-modellen skapad, men själva bygget hade ännu inte påbörjats. Syftet med detta examensarbete var att avgöra om miljögeotekniska 3D-modeller bör användas i framtida exploateringsprojekt, och målet var att utvärdera och ge råd om framtida användning av modellen samt att undersöka möjligheterna med att återanvända schaktmassor. En fallstudie gjordes av Johannelundsprojektet där de miljömässiga och ekonomiska konsekvenserna av masshanteringen utvärderades och åsikter om problematiken undersöktes genom intervjuer med myndigheter och intressenter. Vidare bestämdes det underlag som behövs till modellen och en lämplig arbetsordning togs fram. Denna information baserades på beräkningar, eget arbete i 3D-modellen samt intervjuer med involverade i Johannelundsprojektet. Utvärderingen av Johannelundsprojektet visade att återanvändningen av schaktmassor reducerade kostnader för masshantering med 67 % och emissioner från transporter med 85 % jämfört med om den totala volymen schaktmassor skulle ha skickats på deponi. Vidare visade intervjuerna att myndigheter och intressenter har vitt skilda åsikter vad gäller riktvärden, hantering av schaktmassor och miljögeotekniska 3D-modeller. Studien visade även att om arbetet med 3D-modellen ska bli lyckat krävs bland annat ett fullgott dataunderlag och investering i viss kunskapsutveckling hos personalen. 3D-modeller används allt mer inom samhällsbyggnad, och stora ekonomiska och miljömässiga vinster kan göras genom verktygets möjlighet till effektiv planering och kommunikation. Användning av en miljögeoteknisk 3D-modell rekommenderas i framtida byggprojekt där det förekommer ställvis förhöjda halter av markföroreningar och en omfattande volym schaktmassor beräknas uppkomma. / Land development can cause a great deal of excessive soil masses due to shafting. The total volume of excessive soil is many times transported to a landfill, causing gas emissions, use of natural resources and a significant economical cost. In a land development project in the area of Johannelund in Stockholm much of the soil masses were planned to be reused instead. To overview the soil quality and decide on what soil masses to reuse and where an Environmental 3D Model for Land Development was used by the City of Stockholm. This means a 3D Model based on soil samples, geotechnical investigations and planned shafting. When the work with this thesis begun the Project Johannelund was already planned and the 3D Model had been created, but the land development had yet not been started. The aim of this thesis was to decide if Environmental 3D Models should be used in future land development projects, and the goals were to evaluate the model, give advice on future use and to investigate the possibilities to reuse soil masses. A case study of the environmental and economical effects of reusing soil masses in the Project Johannelund was done. Public authorities and stakeholders were interviewed and advices on how to use Environmental 3D Models were given, this includes the data needed to create a model as well as a suggested way of work. The information is based on calculations, personal experience with the 3D Model and interviews with people involved in the Project Johannelund. The evaluation of the Project Johannelund showed that the reuse of soil masses reduced the costs of transports and land fill fees with 67 %, and the gas emissions from transports with 85 %. The opinions of public authorities and stakeholders vary greatly. Advices on how to use the Environmental 3D Model includes a thorough database and that the staff will need support in order to use the 3D Model properly. 3D Models are used to a larger and larger extent in Urban Management. There are economical and environmental benefits with using the Environmental 3D Model for a more efficient project planning and communication. The City of Stockholm is recommended to use the 3D Model in future land development projects with heterogeneous soil contamination and a large volume of expected excessive soil masses.

We present a geometrical and mathematical solution to a problem faced in the glass industry in this work. Volume measurement of the glass gob is vital in making glassware. Geometric models were used to represent the glass gob. A line scan camera system takes the images of the glass gob and the volume information of the glass gob is obtained by the image processing in the industry. This work is carried out to implement a simulator which estimates the change in the volume measurement of glass gob through line scan when it is rotated or when its shape is changed. A mixture of graphical and mathematical approaches is used to carry out this study. Geometric models have been used to represent the different gob models. Geometric models facilitate the manipulation of volumetric data.A simple and effective technique is used in this work. The problem is divided into steps. Volume measurement through a line scan technique is simulated. An easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) is designed to interact with the gob model and check the results of volume measurements.We present a geometrical and mathematical solution to a problem faced in the glass industry in this work. Volume measurement of the glass gob is vital in making glassware. Geometric models were used to represent the glass gob.A line scan camera system takes the images of the glass gob and the volume information of the glass gob is obtained by the image processing in the industry.This work is carried out to implement a simulator which estimates the change in the volume measurement of glass gob through line scan when it is rotated or when its shape is changed. A mixture of graphical and mathematical approaches is used to carry out this study. Geometric models have been used to represent the different gob models. Geometric models facilitate the manipulation of volumetric data. A simple and effective technique is used in this work. The problem is divided into steps. Volume measurement through a line scan technique is simulated. An easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) is designed to interact with the gob model and check the results of volume measurements.

My thesis involves studying the nature of chimera through history and how certain aspects of chimeras represent specific features of dualities in human nature. The research was reflected in a series of sketches, where one sketch was finalized into a fully realized 3D model. To aid in this goal, I created a system that will randomly generate chimera based on different characteristics. This system was created using Max 5, and was programmed to place images with alphas on top of each other to create unique chimeras. The variables within this system are derived from the research on chimeras depicted in art and mythology throughout history, and will be used as an inspirational tool to help generate unique combinations of chimeras that may not otherwise have been imagined.

Generation of photo-realistic 3D human face models is a hot topic in the area joining computer graphics and computer vision. Many different techniques are used for this purpose, but most of them are not feasible for home users. These techniques may use advanced hardware such as laser scanners, calibrated stereo cameras, or very sophisticated software that can be as expensive as advanced hardware. Face model generation by morphing an initial 3D model with uncalibrated camera photographs is studied in this thesis. Manually marked feature points on photographs are used to deform initial 3D face model. Initial photographs also are processed to form a single texture image covering deformed 3D face model.