Structure estimation and surface triangulation of deformable objects

  • Authors:
  • Charlotte Svensson;Henrik Aanæs;Fredrik Kahl

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark;Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • SCIA'03 Proceedings of the 13th Scandinavian conference on Image analysis
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A system is developed that from an image sequence of a deformable object automatically extracts features and tracks them through the sequence, estimates the non-rigid 3D structure and finally computes a surface triangulation. Also the camera motion is acquired. The object is supposed to deform according to a linear model, while the motion of the camera can be arbitrary. No domain specific prior of the object is required. For the structure estimation a two-step approach is used, where we first obtain an initial estimate of the structure and motion, and then obtain an optimal solution via a non-linear optimization scheme. The triangulation is optlmized to yield a non-rigid faceted surface that well approximates the true 3D surface.