Using geometric constraints for matching disparate stereo views of 3D scenes containing planes
Several vision tasks rely upon the availability of sets of corresponding
features among images. This paper presents a method which, given some
corresponding features in two stereo images, addresses the problem of
matching them with features extracted from a second stereo pair captured
from a distant viewpoint. The proposed method is based on the assumption
that the viewed scene contains two planar surfaces and exploits geometric
constraints that are imposed by the existence of these planes to predict
the location of image features in the second stereo pair. The resulting
scheme handles point and line features in a unified manner and is capable
of successfully matching features extracted from stereo pairs acquired
from considerably different viewpoints. Experimental results from a
prototype implementation demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.
Contributions: Stavros Tzurbakis, Manolis Lourakis, Antonis Argyros, Stelios Orphanoudakis
Current status: Method developed, on-line experiments available.
Sample results
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Fig (a): Left image of the first stereo-pair |
Fig (b): Right image of the first stereo-pair | Fig (c): Left image of the second stereo-pair |
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| Fig (d):Point matches in the left image of the first stereo pair | Fig (e): Point matches in the right image of the first stereo pair | |
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| Fig (f): Resulting matched points at the distant, left image of the second stereo pair | Fig (g): Reconstruction of scene and camera geometry based on the extracted correspondences: side view | Fig (h): Reconstruction of scene and camera geometry based on the extracted correspondences: top view |
· Available documents:
- M. Lourakis, S. Tzurbakis, A. Argyros, S. Orphanoudakis "Using
Geometric Constraints for Matching Disparate Stereo Views of 3D Scenes
Containing Planes", International Conference on Pattern Recognition
(ICPR'00), September 3-8, 2000.
Download paper (pdf file, 78 Kbytes), presented at ICPR ‘00 - Extended version is available as technical report: M.I.A. Lourakis,
S. Tzurbakis, A.A. Argyros, S.O. Orphanoudakis, "Using Geometric Constraints
for Matching Disparate Stereo Views of 3D Scenes Containing Planes",
TR268 ICS-FORTH, February 2000
Download technical report (pdf file, 198 Kbytes)
