A bayesian approach to image-based visual hull reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Kristen Grauman;Gregory Shakhnarovich;Trevor Darrell

  • Affiliations:
  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • CVPR'03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE computer society conference on Computer vision and pattern recognition
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We present a Bayesian approach to image-based visual hull reconstruction. The 3-D shape of an object of a known class is represented by sets of silhouette views simultaneously observed from multiple cameras. We show how the use of a class-specific prior in a visual hull reconstruction can reduce the effect of segmentation errors from the silhouette extraction process. In our representation, 3-D information is implicit in the joint observations of multiple contours from known viewpoints. We model the prior density using a probabilistic principal components analysis-based technique and estimate a maximum a posteriori reconstruction of multi-view contours. The proposed method is applied to a dataset of pedestrian images, and improvements in the approximate 3-D models under various noise conditions are shown.