Introducing a new problem: Shape-from-silhouette when the relative positions of the viewpoints is unknown

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1484-1493

  Bottino, Andrea ^a   Laurentini, Aldo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Object reconstruction; Shape from silhouette; Visual hull; Volume intersection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION; SHAPE FROM SILHOUETTE; VISUAL HULL; VOLUME INTERSECTION TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0442280601     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2003.1240121     Document Type: Article

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