Title Reconstruction and Prediction from Three Images of Uncalibrated Cameras
Authors Anders Heyden
Year 1995
Pages 113 - 126
Document type Conference paper
Conference name Proceedings of 9th Conference on Theory and Applications of Image Analysis II
Conference Date 1995-06
Conference Location Uppsala, Sweden
Status Published
Language eng
Publisher World Scientific
Abstract English This paper deals with the problem of reconstructing the locations of a number of points in space from three different images taken by uncalibrated cameras. It is assumed that the correspondences between the points in the different images are known. In the case of six points this paper shows that there are in general three solutions to the problem of determining the shape of the object, but some of them may be complex and some may not be physically realisable (e.g. points behind the camera). The solutions are given by a third degree polynomial with coefficients depending on the coordinates of the points in the image. It is also shown how a priori information of the object, such as planarity of subsets of the points, can be used to make reconstruction. In this case the reconstruction is unique and it is obtained by a linear method. Furthermore it is shown how additional points in the first two images can be used to predict the location of the corresponding point in the third image, without calculating the epipoles. Finally, a linear method for the reconstruction in the case of at least seven point matches are given
Keywords computer vision, image reconstruction, matrix algebra, stereo image processing,
ISBN/ISSN/Other ISBN: 981 02 2448 6

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