Environment modelling using spherical stereo imaging

Kim, H. and Hilton, Adrian (2010) Environment modelling using spherical stereo imaging. IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, , Kyoto, Japan. 27 Sep - 04 Oct 2009. pp. 1534-1541 . (doi:10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457429).

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Abstract

We propose an environment modelling method using high-resolution spherical stereo colour imaging. We capture indoor or outdoor scenes with line scanning by a rotating spherical camera and recover depth information from a stereo image pair using correspondence matching and spherical cross-slits stereo geometry. The existing single spherical imaging technique is extended to stereo geometry and a hierarchical PDE-based sub-pixel disparity estimation method for large images is proposed. The estimated floating-point disparity fields are used for generating an accurate and smooth depth. Finally, the 3D environments were reconstructed using triangular meshes from the depth field. Through experiments, we evaluate the accuracy of reconstruction against ground-truth and analyze the behaviour of errors for spherical stereo imaging. ©2009 IEEE.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 27 September 2009

Published date: 3 May 2010

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Venue - Dates: IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, , Kyoto, Japan, 2009-09-27 - 2009-10-04

Keywords: 3-D environments, Depth information, Environment modelling, High resolution, Large images, Linescanning, Outdoor scenes, Spherical imaging, Spherical stereo, Stereo geometry, Stereo image pairs, Sub-pixel disparity, Triangular meshes, Computer vision, Image coding, Imaging techniques, Spheres

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