Structure and motion from silhouettes Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3384252, abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of recovering structure and motion from silhouettes. Silhouettes are projections of contour generators which are viewpoint dependent, and hence do not readily provide point correspondences for exploitation in motion estimation. Previous works have exploited correspondences induced by epipolar tangencies, and a successful solution has been developed in the special case of circular motion (turnable sequences). However, the main drawbacks are (1) new views cannot be added easily at a later time, and (2) part of the structure will always remain invisible under circular motion. In this paper we overcome the above problems by incorporating arbitrary general views and estimating the camera poses using silhouettes alone. We present a complete and practical system which produces high quality 3D models from 2D uncalibrated silhouettes. The 3D models thus obtained can be refined incrementally by adding new arbitrary views and estimating their poses. Experimental results on various objects are presented, demonstrating the quality of the reconstructions}, author = {Wong, K. Y. K. and Cipolla, R.}, booktitle = {Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {3384252}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937627}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=937627}, doi = {10.1109/ICCV.2001.937627}, journal = {Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on}, keywords = {3d, calibration, camera, reconstruction, sor}, pages = {217--222 vol.2}, posted-at = {2008-10-07 18:50:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Structure and motion from silhouettes}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937627}, volume = {2}, year = {2001} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3384252 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3384252 N2 - This paper addresses the problem of recovering structure and motion from silhouettes. Silhouettes are projections of contour generators which are viewpoint dependent, and hence do not readily provide point correspondences for exploitation in motion estimation. Previous works have exploited correspondences induced by epipolar tangencies, and a successful solution has been developed in the special case of circular motion (turnable sequences). However, the main drawbacks are (1) new views cannot be added easily at a later time, and (2) part of the structure will always remain invisible under circular motion. In this paper we overcome the above problems by incorporating arbitrary general views and estimating the camera poses using silhouettes alone. We present a complete and practical system which produces high quality 3D models from 2D uncalibrated silhouettes. The 3D models thus obtained can be refined incrementally by adding new arbitrary views and estimating their poses. Experimental results on various objects are presented, demonstrating the quality of the reconstructions JF - Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on EP - 222 vol.2 TI - Structure and motion from silhouettes VL - 2 T2 - Computer Vision, 2001. ICCV 2001. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE International Conference on SP - 217 KW - 3d KW - calibration KW - camera KW - reconstruction KW - sor AU - Wong, KYK AU - Cipolla, R PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937627 ER -