TY - CHAP AU - Patric Keller AU - Martin Hering-Bertram AU - Hans Hagen ED - Alexandru C. Telea Y1 - 2012-03-07 PY - 2012 T1 - Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized 3D Point Clouds N2 - Reverse engineering encompasses a wide spectrum of activities aimed at extracting information on the function, structure, and behavior of man-made or natural artifacts. Increases in data sources, processing power, and improved data mining and processing algorithms have opened new fields of application for reverse engineering. In this book, we present twelve applications of reverse engineering in the software engineering, shape engineering, and medical and life sciences application domains. The book can serve as a guideline to practitioners in the above fields to the state-of-the-art in reverse engineering techniques, tools, and use-cases, as well as an overview of open challenges for reverse engineering researchers. BT - Reverse Engineering SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/33224 DO - 10.5772/33224 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -