3D Surface Reconstruction Using Occluding Contours

  • Authors:
  • Edmond Boyer;Marie-Odile Berger

  • Affiliations:
  • Crin–/Cnrs/Inria Lorraine, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex, France/ E-mail: boyere@loria.fr, berger@loria.fr;Crin–/Cnrs/Inria Lorraine, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex, France/ E-mail: boyere@loria.fr, berger@loria.fr

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of 3D surface reconstruction usingimage sequences. It has been shown that shape recovery from three ormore occluding contours of the surface is possible given a knowncamera motion. Several algorithms, which have been recentlyproposed, allow such a reconstruction under the assumption of alinear camera motion. A new approach is presented which deals with the reconstructionproblem directly from a discrete point of view. First, a theoretical studyof the epipolar correspondence between occluding contours is achieved.A correct depth formulation is then derived from a localapproximation of the surface up to order two. This allows the local shape to be estimated, giventhree consecutive contours, without any constraints on the cameramotion. Experimental results are presented for both synthetic and real data.