3d Imaging For Safety And Security

3D Imaging for Safety and Security Computational Imaging and Vision Managing Editor MAX VIERGEVER Utrecht University, The Netherlands Series Editors GUNILLA BORGEFORS, Centre for Image Analysis, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden RACHID DERICHE, INRIA, France THOMAS S. HUANG, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA KATSUSHI IKEUCHI, Tokyo University, Japan TIANZI JIANG, Institute of Automation, CAS, Beijing REINHARD KLETTE, University of Auckland, New Zealand ALES LEONARDIS, ViCoS, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia HEINZ-OTTO PEITGEN, CeVis, Bremen, Germany JOHN K. TSOTSOS, York University, Canada This comprehensive book series embraces state-of-the-art expository works and advanced research monographs on any aspect of this interdisciplinary field. Topics covered by the series fall in the following four main categories: • Imaging Systems and Image Processing • Computer Vision and Image Understanding • Visualization • Applications of Imaging Technologies Only monographs or multi-authored books that have a distinct subject area, that is where each chapter has been invited in order to fulfill this purpose, will be considered for the series. Volume 35 3D Imaging for Safety and Security Edited by Andreas Koschan The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Marc Pollefeys University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA and Mongi Abidi The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-4020-6181-3 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6182-0 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2007 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mec