Monocular stereo imaging using bi-slit projections from Forward motion video

The video captured from forward moving camera has been used for environment surveillance, endoscopy, pipeline inspection and mobile navigation, from which 3D information acquisition will further facilitate the applications. In this paper, we proposed a new method named bi-slit projections to achieve the stereo imaging from forward motion video captured by only single camera. The method only requires simple geometrical calculation without computation of any 3D structure. The epipolar geometry about parallax and baseline also be formulated in detail. The experimental results including indoor and outdoor scene demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method by generating the stereoscopic 3D image and calculating the lateral depth map.