3D reconstruction from a single view of an object and its image in a plane mirror

Author

Zhang, Z.Y. ; Tsui, H.T.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

16-20 Aug 1998

Firstpage

1174

Abstract

An arbitrary object and its image in a plane mirror constitute a bilaterally symmetric structure. When the structure is viewed by a single camera, the correspondence between the object and its counterpart in the mirror is auto-epipolar in one image taken by the camera and can be computed in a way similar to that for stereo vision. The 3D structure of the object is therefore recoverable from the single image. In this paper, a 3D-reconstruction algorithm derived from this theory is verified using different objects in front of a mirror observed by a calibrated camera. Very good experimental results are presented. Remarks on tackling the limitation of the present scheme are also given

Keywords

computer vision; image reconstruction; stereo image processing; 3D image reconstruction; bilateral symmetry; calibrated camera; plane mirror; stereo vision; symmetric structure; Cameras; Computer vision; Electrical capacitance tomography; Humans; Image reconstruction; Mirrors; Read only memory; Shape; Signal processing; Stereo vision;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 1998. Proceedings. Fourteenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8512-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.1998.711905

Filename

711905