When is the shape of a scene unique given its light-field: A fundamental theorem of 3D vision?

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 100-109

  Baker, Simon ^a   Sim, Terence ^b   Kanade, Takeo ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

3D shape reconstruction; Light fields; Shape from silhouette; Stereo; The plenoptic function; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IRRADIATION; THEOREM PROVING;

SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0037250180     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1159949     Document Type: Article

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