Recovering the 3D structure of tubular objects from stereo silhouettes

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1051-1059

  Cumani, Aldo ^a   Guiducci, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Generalized cylinder; Model estimation; Silhouettes; Stereo

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; KALMAN FILTERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALMOST VERTICAL TUBULAR OBJECTS (AVTO); STEREO SILHOUETTES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031188137     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00144-6     Document Type: Article

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