3D shape recovery of smooth surfaces: Dropping the fixed viewpoint assumption

Yael Moses, Ilan Shimshoni

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Abstract

We present a new method for recovering the 3D shape of a featureless smooth surface from three or more calibrated images. The main contribution of this paper is the ability to handle general images which are taken from unconstrained viewpoints and unconstrained illumination directions. To the best of our knowledge, no other method is currently capable of handling such images, since correspondence between such images is hard to compute. Our method combines geometric and photometric information in order to recover a dense correspondence between the images and successfully computes an accurate 3D shape of the surface. The method is based on a single pass and local computation and does not make use of global optimization over the whole surface. While we assume a Lambertian reflectance function, our method can be easily modified to handle more general reflectance models as long as it is possible to recover local normals from photometric information. Experimental results are presented for simulated and real images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ACCV 2006 - 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages429-438
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2006 - Hyderabad, India
Duration: 13 Jan 200616 Jan 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3851 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2006
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityHyderabad
Period13/01/0616/01/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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