Mukherjee,Jayanta, Das,P.P and Chatterji,B.N.(1990):
From Range to Frame: extraction of 3-D information from 2-1/2 D data,
Pattern Recognition Letters, 11(7), 493-498. 

Abstract. 

In this paper we present an algorithm for extracting 3D information in terms of the wire frame structure of a given 3D object from its range (2-1/2 D) data. This is an extension of a wire frame extraction algorithm reported earlier.