An iterative surface evolution algorithm for multiview stereo

  • Authors:
  • Yongjian Xi;Ye Duan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO;Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

  • Venue:
  • Journal on Image and Video Processing - Special issue on fast and robust methods for multiple-view vision
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We propose a new iterative surface evolution algorithm for multiview stereo. Starting from an embedding space such as the visual hull, we will first conduct robust 3D depth estimation (represented as 3D points) based on image correlation. A fast implicit distance function-based region growing method is then employed to extract an initial shape estimation based on these 3D points. Next, an explicit surface evolution will be conducted to recover the finer geometry details of the recovered shape. The recovered shape will be further improved by several iterations between depth estimation and shape reconstruction, similar to the Expectation Maximization (EM) approach. The experiments on the benchmark datasets show that our algorithm can obtain highquality reconstruction results that are comparable with the state-of-art methods, with considerable less computational time and complexity.