Oriented visibility for multiview reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • V. Lempitsky;Y. Boykov;D. Ivanov

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia;Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada;Department of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'06 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Visibility estimation is arguably the most difficult problem in dense 3D reconstruction from multiple arbitrary views. In this paper, we propose a simple new approach to estimating visibility based on position and orientation of local surface patches. Using our concept of oriented visibility, we present a new algorithm for multiview reconstruction based on exact global optimization of surface photoconsistency using graph cuts on a CW-complex. In contrast to many previous methods for 3D reconstruction from arbitrary views, our method does not depend on initialization and is robust to photometrically difficult situations.