Recovering epipolar direction from two affine views of a planar object

The mainstream approach to estimate epipolar geometry from two views requires matching the projections of at least 4 non-coplanar points in the scene, assuming a full projective camera model. Our work deviates from this in three respects: affine camera, planar scene and active contour tracking inste...

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Autores: Alberich-Carramiñana, Maria, Alenyà, Guillem, Andrade-Cetto, Juan, Martínez Marroquín, Elisa, Torras, Carme
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/30592
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/30592
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Affine epipolar direction estimation
Active contours
Precision analysis
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Resumo:The mainstream approach to estimate epipolar geometry from two views requires matching the projections of at least 4 non-coplanar points in the scene, assuming a full projective camera model. Our work deviates from this in three respects: affine camera, planar scene and active contour tracking instead of point matching. Using results in Projective Geometry, we prove that the affine epipolar direction can be recovered provided camera motion is free of cyclorotation. A setup consisting of a Staubli robot holding a planar object in front of a camera is used to obtain calibrated image streams, which are used as ground truth to evaluate the performance of the method, and to test its limiting conditions in practice. The fact that our method (applicable to planar, poorly textured scenes) and the Gold Standard algorithm (applicable to highly textured scenes with significant relief) produce comparable results shows the potential of our proposal.