Regularizing a set of unstructured 3D points from a sequence of stereo images

  • Authors:
  • Luis Álvarez-León;Carmelo Cuenca;Javier Sánchez

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad de Las Palmas de G.C., Las Palmas;Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad de Las Palmas de G.C., Las Palmas;Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Universidad de Las Palmas de G.C., Las Palmas

  • Venue:
  • Scale Space'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Scale space methods in computer vision
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper we present a method for the regularization of a set of unstructured 3D points obtained from a sequence of stereo images. This method takes into account the information supplied by the disparity maps computed between pairs of images to constraint the regularization of the set of 3D points. We propose a model based on an energy which is composed of two terms: an attachment term that minimizes the distance from 3D points to the projective lines of camera points, and a second term that allows for the regularization of the set of 3D points by preserving discontinuities presented on the disparity maps. We embed this energy in a 2D finite element method. After minimizing, this method results in a large system of equations that can be optimized for fast computations. We derive an efficient implicit numerical scheme which reduces the number of calculations and memory allocations.