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Summary: Detail Enhancing Denoising of
Digitized 3D Models from a Mobile
Scanning System
Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Brad Grinstead
December 2007
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Acknowledgements
When you arrive at the end of a season, it is often difficult to remember all those you
passed along the way. At the end of this juncture in my life, I owe my thanks to many
people, most of whom will have to go unmentioned for sake of brevity. For that, I hope they
will forgive me. First and foremost, I must dedicate this dissertation to my wife Sabrina,
who stood with me throughout the entire process, sparing no effort to help me continue and
succeed, even taking on the lion's share of the financial responsibilities for our family to
allow me to study unfettered. To my parents goes another large portion of gratitude, for their
forbearance of a long educational process and the delays in familyhood the extended
education forced upon them. I know they understand, and that alone is enough.
I owe Dr. Mongi Abidi, Dr. Andreas Koschan, and Dr. Andrei Gribok a debt of gratitude
that cannot be expressed for their generosity, insight, and help. Without their support, I
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