METHODOLOGY FOR 3D SCENE RECONSTRUCTION FROM 2D IMAGE SEQUENCES

• Main Authors: CHAN SONNY, SPOONER DAVID A, SIMMONS CHRISTOPHER L
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.08.2008
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technique for reconstructing a 3D scene from 2D images with less computational complexity and highly accurate. SOLUTION: The present invention is directed to a system and method for interactive and iterative reconstruction in a manner that helps fo reduce computational requirements by generating a model from a subset of available data, and then refining that model using additional data. Example embodiments directed to scene reconstruction, reconstruct a 3D scene from a plurality of 2D images of that scene by first generating a model of the 3D scene from a subset of the 2D images. The model can then be refined using specific characteristics of each image in the subset and the characteristics are calculated using the other images in the subset. The model is further refined using images not in the original subset. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT