Multi-view Scene Flow Estimation: A View Centered Variational Approach

  • Authors:
  • Tali Basha;Yael Moses;Nahum Kiryati

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978;Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel 46150;School of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a novel method for recovering the 3D structure and scene flow from calibrated multi-view sequences. We propose a 3D point cloud parametrization of the 3D structure and scene flow that allows us to directly estimate the desired unknowns. A unified global energy functional is proposed to incorporate the information from the available sequences and simultaneously recover both depth and scene flow. The functional enforces multi-view geometric consistency and imposes brightness constancy and piecewise smoothness assumptions directly on the 3D unknowns. It inherently handles the challenges of discontinuities, occlusions, and large displacements. The main contribution of this work is the fusion of a 3D representation and an advanced variational framework that directly uses the available multi-view information. This formulation allows us to advantageously bind the 3D unknowns in time and space. Different from optical flow and disparity, the proposed method results in a nonlinear mapping between the images' coordinates, thus giving rise to additional challenges in the optimization process. Our experiments on real and synthetic data demonstrate that the proposed method successfully recovers the 3D structure and scene flow despite the complicated nonconvex optimization problem.