CAD based 3d object recognition on range images

In industrial manufacturing the production process still is separated from the design level. But, the growing need for a higher standard of quality, a higher variety of products and a more flexible production forces to bring the separated fields together. Only a broad communication between all levels can guarantee that the causes for malfunctions are eliminated early and quickly. Thus, it is desirable to use general CAD descriptions at all levels of manufacturing. One step towards this direction is the new field called CAD Based Vision (CBV) introducing usual CAD object representations into the computer vision community (e. g. [7, 13, 16]).