Shape-adapted smoothing in estimation of 3-D shape cues from affine deformations of local 2-D brightness structure

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 415-434

  Lindeberg, Tony ^a   Gårding, Jonas ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Affine deformation; Disparity; Optic flow; Shape estimation; Shape from texture

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

AFFINE DEFORMATION; SCALE SPACE THEORY; SHAPE ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031164879     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)01144-x     Document Type: Article

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