Engineering Inspection (EI) requires automated verification of freeform parts. Currently, parts are verified by using alignment
techniques on the inspected part and a CAD model. Applying the alignment on points or meshes is demanding and time-consuming.
This work proposes a new alignment method to be applied on segments rather than on mesh elements. First, a discrete curvature
analysis is applied on the meshes, and segments are extracted. Then, the inspected and CAD models are represented by segment
graphs. Finally, a bipartite graph matching process is applied on the segment graphs, which are combined to be the two sides
of a bipartite graph. As a result, a Combinatorial Matching Tree (CMT) is defined, and potential alignments are determined.
The feasibility of the proposed segments alignment is demonstrated on real scanned engineering parts.
Keywords Computational metrology - Mesh processing - Metrology - Reverse engineering - Bipartite graph matching