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Matching Geometric Models
via Alignment
Alignment is the most common paradigm for matching
3D models to either 2D or 3D data.  The steps are:
1.  hypothesize a correspondence between a set of model
      points and a set of data points
2.   From the correspondence compute a transformation
      from model to data
3.  Apply the transformation to the model features to
     produce transformed features
4.  Compare the transformed model features to the image
      features to verify or disprove the hypothesis