RANGE IMAGE SHAPE MEASUREMENT USING HIERARCHICAL ORDERING OF MULTIRESOLUTION MESH DATA FROM DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION

An image processing method and apparatus using the method allows a target object to be displayed in a 3-D manner. A number of types of shape data with different resolutions for displaying the object are provided and the resolution of shape data used for the 3-D image display is decided in accordance with a display condition. The object is displayed in the form of a 3-D image by employing the shape data with the decided resolution.