A Global Approach for the Detection of Vanishing Points and Mutually Orthogonal Vanishing Directions

  • Authors:
  • Michel Antunes;Joao P. Barreto

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This article presents a new global approach for detecting vanishing points and groups of mutually orthogonal vanishing directions using lines detected in images of man-made environments. These two multi-model fitting problems are respectively cast as Uncapacited Facility Location (UFL) and Hierarchical Facility Location (HFL) instances that are efficiently solved using a message passing inference algorithm. We also propose new functions for measuring the consistency between an edge and a putative vanishing point, and for computing the vanishing point defined by a subset of edges. Extensive experiments in both synthetic and real images show that our algorithms outperform the state-of-the-art methods while keeping computation tractable. In addition, we show for the first time results in simultaneously detecting multiple Manhattan-world configurations that can either share one vanishing direction (Atlanta world) or be completely independent.