Silhouette coherence for camera calibration under circular motion

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 343-349

  Hernández, Carlos ^a   Schmitt, Francis ^b   Cipolla, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

3D modeling; Circular motion; Epipolar tangency; Focal length estimation; Image based visual hull; Silhouette coherence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CAMERA CALIBRATION; EPIPOLAR TANGENCY; FOCAL LENGTH ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEQUENCES; IMAGE-BASED VISUAL HULL; SILHOUETTE COHERENCE;

DIGITAL CAMERAS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33947208395     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.42     Document Type: Article

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