Robust and efficient photo-consistency estimation for volumetric 3d reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Hornung;Leif Kobbelt

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Graphics Group, RWTH Aachen University;Computer Graphics Group, RWTH Aachen University

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

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Abstract

Estimating photo-consistency is one of the most important ingredients for any 3D stereo reconstruction technique that is based on a volumetric scene representation. This paper presents a new, illumination invariant photo-consistency measure for high quality, volumetric 3D reconstruction from calibrated images. In contrast to current standard methods such as normalized cross-correlation it supports unconstrained camera setups and non-planar surface approximations. We show how this measure can be embedded into a highly efficient, completely hardware accelerated volumetric reconstruction pipeline by exploiting current graphics processors. We provide examples of high quality reconstructions with computation times of only a few seconds to minutes, even for large numbers of cameras and high volumetric resolutions.