Optimal templates for nonrigid surface reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Markus Moll;Luc Van Gool

  • Affiliations:
  • ESAT-IBBT/PSI, KU Leuven, Belgium;ESAT-IBBT/PSI, KU Leuven, Belgium, Computer Vision Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing a deforming surface from point observations in a monocular video sequence. Recent state-of-the-art approaches divide the surface into smaller patches to simplify the problem. Among these, one very promising approach reconstructs the patches individually using a quadratic deformation model. In this paper, we demonstrate limitations that affect its applicability to real-world data and propose an approach that overcomes these problems. In particular, we show how to eliminate the need for manually picking a template that is used to model the deformations. We evaluate our algorithm on both synthetic and real-world data sets and show that it systematically reduces the reconstruction error by a factor of up to ten.