A Novel Technique for Point-wise Surface Normal Estimation

Daniel Barath, Ivan Eichhardt

2016

Abstract

Nowadays multi-view stereo reconstruction algorithms can achieve impressive results using many views of the scene. Our primary objective is to robustly extract more information about the underlying surface from fewer images. We present a method for point-wise surface normal and tangent plane estimation in stereo case to reconstruct real-world scenes. The proposed algorithm works for general camera model, however, we choose the pinhole-camera in order to demonstrate its efficiency. The presented method uses particle swarm optimization under geometric and epipolar constraints in order to achieve suitable speed and quality. An oriented point cloud is generated using a single point correspondence for each oriented 3D point and a cost function based on photo-consistency. It can straightforwardly be extended to multi-view reconstruction. Our method is validated in both synthesized and real tests. The proposed algorithm is compared to one of the state-of-the-art patch-based multi-view reconstruction algorithms.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Barath D. and Eichhardt I. (2016). A Novel Technique for Point-wise Surface Normal Estimation . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 686-693. DOI: 10.5220/0005776406860693

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp16,
author={Daniel Barath and Ivan Eichhardt},
title={A Novel Technique for Point-wise Surface Normal Estimation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={686-693},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005776406860693},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - A Novel Technique for Point-wise Surface Normal Estimation
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Barath D.
AU - Eichhardt I.
PY - 2016
SP - 686
EP - 693
DO - 10.5220/0005776406860693