A new approach to automatic reconstruction of a 3-D world using active stereo vision

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-143

  Lin, Chung Yi ^a,b   Shih, Sheng Wen ^c   Hung, Yi Ping ^a   Tang, Gregory Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 D data integration; 3 D reconstruction; Active vision; Asymptotic Bayesian estimation; Stereo vision; View interpolation

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR VISION; COMPUTER VISION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STEREO VISION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ESTIMATION ERRORS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0041467583     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.2001.0943     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. U. R. Dhond and J. Aggarwal, Structure from stereo - A review, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, Cybernet. 19(6), 1989, 1489-1510.
2. P. E. Debevec, C. J. Taylor, and J. Malik, Modeling and rendering architecture from photographs: A hybrid geometry- and image-based approach, in Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH'96, 1996, pp. 11-20.
3. Y.-P. Hung, K.-C. Hung, C.-S. Chen, and C.-S. Fuh, Multi-pass hierarchical stereo matching for generation of digital terrain models from aerial images, Machine Vision Appl. 11(1), 1998, 280-291.
4. J. Aloimonos and A. Badyopadhyay, Active vision, in Processings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision, 1987, pp. 35-54.
5. J. Aloimonos, Purposive and qualitative active vision, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1990, Vol. 1, pp. 346-360.
6. I. D. Reid and P. A. Beardsley, Self-alignment of a binocular robot, Image Vision Comput. 14, 1996, 635-640.
7. P. F. McLauchlan and D. Murray, Active camera calibration for a head-eye platform using the variable state-dimension filter, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 18, 1996, 15-22.
8. M. Li, Camera Calibration of the kth Head/Eye System, Tech. Rep. CVAP147, Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), S-100 44, Stockman, Sweden, 1994.
9. M. Li and J. M. Lavest, Some Aspects of Zoom-Lens Camera Calibration, Tech. Rep. CVAP172, Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), S-100 44, Stockman, Sweden, 1995.
10. M. Li, D. Betsis, and J. M. Lavest, Kinematic Calibration of the kth Head-Eye System, Tech. Rep. CVAP171, Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), S-100 44, Stockman, Sweden, 1994.
11. M. Li and D. Betsis, Head-eye calibration, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995, pp. 40-45.
12. S.-W. Shih, Y.-P. Hung, and W.-S. Lin, Calibration of an active binocular head, IEEE Trans. Systems Man Cybernet. - Part A: Systems Humans 28, 1998, 426-442.
13. K. Brunnstrom, J.-O. Eklundh, and T. Uhlin, Active fixation for scene exploration, Internat. J. Comput. Vision 17(2), 1996, 137-162.
14. H. Wu, T. Fukumoto, Q. Chen, and M. Yachida, Active face observation system, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 441-445.
15. A. Davison and D. Murray, Mobile robot localisation using active vision, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, 1998, pp. 809-825.
16. I. D. Reid and D. W. Murray, Active tracking of foveated feature clusters using affine structure, Internat. J. Comput. Vision 18(1), 1996, 41-60.
17. M. Kam, X. Zhu, and P. Kalata, Sensor fusion for mobile robot navigation, in Proceedings of the IEEE, 1997, Vol. 85, pp. 108-119.
18. S. M. Seitz and C. R. Dyer, Photorealistic scene reconstruction by voxel coloring, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1997, pp. 1067-1073.
19. C.-Y. Lin, S.-W. Shih, and Y.-P. Hung, Toward automatic reconstruction of 3D environment with an active binocular head, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1998, Vol. 2, pp. 1708-1710.
20. K. N. Kutulakos and S. M. Seitz, A theory of shape by space carving, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision, 1999, pp. 307-314.
21. R. Beß, D. Paulus, and H. Niemann, 3D recovery using calibrated active camera, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 1996, pp. 855-858.
22. N. Maru, A. Nishikawa, F. Miyazaki, and S. Arimoto, Active binocular stereo, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1993, pp. 724-725.
23. E. Grosso and M. Tistarelli, Active/dynamic stereo vision, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 17, 1995, 868-879.
24. N. Ahuja and L. Abbott, Active stereo: Integrating disparity, vergence, focus, aperture, and calibration for structure estimation, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 15(10), 1993, 1007-1029.
25. E. Marchand and F. Chaumette, An autonomous active vision system for complete and accurate 3D scene reconstruction, Internat. J. Comput. Vision 32(3), 1999, 171-194.
26. Y.-P. Hung, D. B. Cooper, and B. Cernuschi-Frias, Asymptotic Bayesian surface estimation using an image sequence, Internat. J. Comput. Vision 6(2), 1991, 105-132.
27. M. Okutomi and T. Kanade, A multiple-baseline stereo, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 15(4), 1993, 353-363.
28. S. D. Blostein and T. S. Huang, Error analysis in stereo determination of 3-D point positions, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 9(6), 1987, 752-765.
29. C.-Y. Lin, S.-W. Shih, Y.-P. Hung, and G. Y. Tang, Toward Automatic Reconstruction of 3D Environment with an Active Binocular Head, Tech. Rep. TR-IIS-01-009, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan, 2001.
30. D. B. Cooper, J. Subrahmonia, Y.-P. Hung, and B. Cernuschi-Frias, The Use of Markov Random Fields in Estimating and Recognizing Objects in 3D Space Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications (Rama Chellapa and Anil Jain, Eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, 1993.