A Kalman filter approach to direct depth estimation incorporating surface structure

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 570-575

  Hung, Y S ^a   Ho, H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Depth from motion; Gradient method; Image sequence; Kaiman filter; Surface structure

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL FLOWS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DEPTH FROM MOTION; DIRECT DEPTH ESTIMATION; GRADIENT METHOD; IMAGE SEQUENCE;

KALMAN FILTERING;

EID: 0032637223     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.771330     Document Type: Article

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