Mark Pauly and Niloy J. Mitra and Leonidas Guibas.
Uncertainty and Variability in Point Cloud Surface Data.
In Symposium on Point-Based Graphics, pp. 77--84, 2004.

Bibtex:

@InProceedings{  pauly:2004:UVPC,
  author = 	 {Mark Pauly and Niloy J. Mitra and Leonidas Guibas},
  title = 	 {Uncertainty and Variability in Point Cloud Surface Data},
  booktitle =    {Symposium on Point-Based Graphics},
  pages = 	 {77--84},
  year = 	 {2004},
}

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