Degen generalized cylinders and their properties

Authors:
Liangliang Cao;Jianzhuang Liu;Xiaoou Tang
Affiliations:
Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Venue:
ECCV'06 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part I
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Generalized cylinder (GC) has played an important role in computer vision since it was introduced in the 1970s. While studying GC models in human visual perception of shapes from contours, Marr assumed that GC's limbs are planar curves. Later, Koenderink and Ponce pointed out that this assumption does not hold in general by giving some examples. In this paper, we show that straight homogeneous generalized cylinders (SHGCs) and tori (a kind of curved GCs) have planar limbs when viewed from points on specific straight lines. This property leads us to the definition and investigation of a new class of GCs, with the help of the surface model proposed by Degen for geometric modeling. We call them Degen generalized cylinders (DGCs), which include SHGCs, tori, quadrics, cyclides, and more other GCs into one model. Our rigorous discussion is based on projective geometry and homogeneous coordinates. We present some invariant properties of DGCs that reveal the relations among the planar limbs, axes, and contours of DGCs. These properties are useful for recovering DGC descriptions from image contours as well as for some other tasks in computer vision.