Towards Urban 3D Reconstruction from Video

Author

Akbarzadeh, A. ; Frahm, J.-M. ; Mordohai, P. ; Clipp, B. ; Engels, C. ; Gallup, D. ; Merrell, P. ; Phelps, M. ; Sinha, S. ; Talton, B. ; Wang, L. ; Yang, Q. ; Stewenius, H. ; Yang, R. ; Welch, G. ; Towles, H. ; Nistér, D. ; Pollefeys, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. Center for Visualization & Virtual Environments, Kentucky Univ., Lexington, KY

fYear

2006

fDate

14-16 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The paper introduces a data collection system and a processing pipeline for automatic geo-registered 3D reconstruction of urban scenes from video. The system collects multiple video streams, as well as GPS and INS measurements in order to place the reconstructed models in geo- registered coordinates. Besides high quality in terms of both geometry and appearance, we aim at real-time performance. Even though our processing pipeline is currently far from being real-time, we select techniques and we design processing modules that can achieve fast performance on multiple CPUs and GPUs aiming at real-time performance in the near future. We present the main considerations in designing the system and the steps of the processing pipeline. We show results on real video sequences captured by our system.

Keywords

image reconstruction; image sequences; video signal processing; video streaming; GPS measurement; INS measurement; data collection system; geo-registered 3D reconstruction; multiple video streams; processing pipeline; urban scenes; video sequences; Cameras; Computer science; Data visualization; Global Positioning System; Image reconstruction; Layout; Pipelines; Surface reconstruction; Surface texture; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission, Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chapel Hill, NC

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2825-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3DPVT.2006.141

Filename

4155703