@CONFERENCE\{IMM2006-04879, author = "S. Darkner and M. Vester-Christensen and R. Larsen and C. Nielsen and R. R. Paulsen", title = "Automated {3D} Rigid Registration of Open {2D} Manifolds", year = "2006", month = "oct", pages = "19-22", booktitle = "{MICCAI} 2006 Workshop {''}From Statistical Atlases to Personalized Models''", volume = "", series = "", editor = "Alejandro F. Frangi and Herv\'{e} Delingette", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/4879-full.html", abstract = "We present a robust method for {3D} rigid registration of {2D} open manifolds based on distance maps using an initialization step, a Gibbs sampler for optimization supplemented by an Iterated Conditional Modes (ICM) optimizer. The algorithm is fully automatic based on very simple information of the initial orientation of the given objects.", isbn_issn = "13 978-86-7611-156-4" }