Point Cloud, PLY and Meshlab

Scanalyze description, original ( view individual range scans, align sets of range scans, and view completed reconstructions)

PLY format
PLY tools
3D object Converter

Range Finding Surveys

• Batlle et al, Pattern Recognition 1998 Recent progress in coded structured light as a technique to solve the correspondence problem: a survey
• Blais , Journal of Electronic Imaging 2004 A review of 20 years of range sensor development
• Jarvis, PAMI 1983, A perspective on range finding techniques for computer vision
• Strand, Optical Engineering 1985, Optical three-dimensional sensing for machine vision
• Poussart and Laurendeau, Chapter 3 in Advances in Machine Vision, pg 123-159, 3-D Sensing for Industrial Computer Vision
• ·Besl, P.J. "Active, optical range imaging sensors." Machine Vision and Applications (1988) vol.1, no.2, p. 127-52.

Meshlab:
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/