Shape from contour for the digitization of curved documents

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Courteille;Jean-Denis Durou;Pierre Gurdjos

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT, Toulouse, France;IRIT, Toulouse, France;IRIT, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • ACCV'07 Proceedings of the 8th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We are aiming at extending the basic digital camera functionalities to the ability to simulate the flattening of a document, by virtually acting like a flatbed scanner. Typically, the document is the warped page of an opened book. The problem is stated as a computer vision problem, whose resolution involves, in particular, a 3D reconstruction technique, namely shape from contour. Assuming that a photograph is taken by a camera in arbitrary position or orientation, and that the model of the document surface is a generalized cylinder, we show how the corrections of its geometric distortions, including perspective distortion, can be achieved from a single view of the document. The performances of the proposed technique are assessed and illustrated through experiments on real images.