Reconstructing Open Surfaces from Image Data
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Summary, in English
In this paper a method for fitting open surfaces to data obtained from images is presented using a level set representation of the surface. This is done by tracking a curve, representing the boundary, on the implicitly defined surface. This curve is given as the intersection of the level set describing the surface and an auxiliary level set. These two level sets are propagated using the same motion vector field. Special care has to be taken in order for the surfaces not to intersect at other places than at the desired boundary. Methods for accomplishing this are presented and a fast scheme for finding, initial values is proposed. This method gives a piecewise linear approximation of the initial surface boundary using a partition of the convex hull of the recovered 3D data. With the approach described in this paper, open surfaces can be fitted to e.g. point clouds obtained using structure from motion techniques. This paper solves an important practical problem since in many cases the surfaces in the scene are open or can only be viewed from certain directions. Experiments on several data sets support the method.
Department/s
Publishing year
2006
Language
English
Pages
267-275
Publication/Series
International Journal of Computer Vision
Volume
69
Issue
3
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Mathematics
Keywords
- variational methods
- level set method
- computer vision
- multiple view
- stereo
- structure from motion
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1573-1405