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1.- Dynamic Fusion: Real-time reconstruction and tracking of non-rigid scenes using a single depth camera, without requiring a pre-modeled template.

2.- Commodity depth camera: Affordable, widely available depth sensing camera used for real-time 3D reconstruction.

3.- Canonical frame: Fixed reference frame to which non-rigid video frames are aligned using a warp field.

4.- Warp field: Per-frame volumetric field that describes how the observed scene surface and surrounding space deform from the canonical frame.

5.- Volumetric surface reconstruction: 3D reconstruction of the scene that is incrementally updated by undoing motion observed in each depth frame.

6.- Template-free reconstruction: Reconstructing non-rigid scenes without requiring a parameterized template of the objects being tracked.

7.- Real-time output: The system produces an incrementally updated reconstruction of the scene in real-time.

8.- Volumetric signed distance functions (SDF): Efficient surface representation for real-time updates, where each point stores the signed distance to the nearest surface.

9.- Truncated signed distance function (TSDF): Narrow band of the SDF near the surface, used for efficient storage and computation.

10.- Zero level set: The surface itself, encoded as the zero-crossing of the signed distance function, which can be extracted as a triangle mesh.

11.- Volumetric motion field: Represents scene motion as a 6-DoF rigid body transformation at each point in the canonical space.

12.- Deformation graph: Sparse set of deformation nodes used to interpolate the volumetric motion field, reducing computation and ensuring smoothness.

13.- Normalized dual quaternion: Parameterization of deformation node transforms, enabling efficient blending and reducing artifacts.

14.- Non-rigid tracking cost function: Comprises a data term (minimized when the warped model matches the live frame) and a regularization term (ensures motion field smoothness).

15.- Dense data term: Allows all data in the live frame to be used for optimization, without requiring sparse feature extraction and matching.

16.- Looping norm regularization: Ensures discontinuities can form in the motion field where supported by data, while keeping the field smooth elsewhere.

17.- Range fusion: Technique used in KinectFusion for rigid scenes, generalized to non-rigid scenes in DynamicFusion using the estimated warp field.

18.- Warped point projection: Projecting a canonical point into the live depth map using the estimated warp field to obtain an SDF observation.

19.- Weighted SDF fusion: Fusing observed SDF values in the canonical frame using the estimated warp field, as if updating a tiny rigid volume.

20.- Deformation graph node insertion: Adding new nodes to the deformation graph to accurately represent motion over newly reconstructed surface areas.

21.- Epsilon distance threshold: Determines the density of deformation graph nodes based on their distance from the nearest existing node.

22.- Coarser motion field: Resulting from increasing the epsilon distance threshold, leading to fewer transformation nodes and simpler motion representation.

23.- Hand modeling application: Using DynamicFusion for real-time modeling of small non-rigid objects manipulated by hands.

24.- Topology changes: DynamicFusion can handle changes in scene topology, such as open-to-closed-to-open deformations, during continuous reconstruction.

25.- Limitations: DynamicFusion may struggle with deformations not observed in the data, posing challenges for scaling to larger scenes.

26.- Volumetric warp field estimation: Key to enabling real-time non-rigid reconstruction by generalizing range fusion approaches to non-rigid scenarios.

27.- Real-time performance: Achieved through efficient representations (TSDF, deformation graphs) and parallelizable operations on the GPU.

28.- Scaling and compression: Volumetric motion field with per-point rigid body transforms allows for surface scaling and compression.

29.- Data association challenges: When surface scaling or compression exceeds the original canonical model positions, data association may fail.

30.- Future work: Incorporating explicit loop closure to address scenarios where objects disappear and reappear in the camera view.

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