Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception (CAMP'00)
Homography Based Parallel Volume Intersection: Toward Real-Time Volume Reconstruction using Active Cameras
Padova, Italy
September 11-September 13
ISBN: 0-7695-0740-9
T. Wada, Dept. of Intelligent Sci. & Technol., Kyoto Univ., Japan
Xiaojun Wu, Dept. of Intelligent Sci. & Technol., Kyoto Univ., Japan
S. Tokai, Dept. of Intelligent Sci. & Technol., Kyoto Univ., Japan
T. Matsuyama, Dept. of Intelligent Sci. & Technol., Kyoto Univ., Japan
Silhouette volume intersection is one of the most popular ideas for reconstructing the 3D volume of an object from multi-viewpoint silhouette images. This paper presents a novel parallel volume intersection method based on plane-to-plane homography for real-time 3D volume reconstruction using active cameras. This paper mainly focuses on the acceleration of back-projection from silhouette images to 3D space without using any sophisticated software technique, such as octree volume representation, or look-up table based projection acceleration. Also this paper presents a parallel intersection method of projected silhouette images. From the preliminary experimental results we estimate near frame-rate volume reconstruction for a life-sized mannequin can be achieved at 3 cm spatial resolution on our PC cluster system.
Index Terms:
image reconstruction; real-time volume reconstruction; active cameras; parallel volume intersection; back-projection; silhouette images; octree volume representation; projection acceleration; projected silhouette images; frame-rate volume reconstruction
Citation:
T. Wada, Xiaojun Wu, S. Tokai, T. Matsuyama, "Homography Based Parallel Volume Intersection: Toward Real-Time Volume Reconstruction using Active Cameras," camp, pp.331, Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception (CAMP'00), 2000