Visual tunnel analysis for visibility prediction and camera planning

Author

Kang, Sing Bing ; Seitz, Steven M. ; Sloan, Peter-Pike

Author_Institution

Vision Technol. Group, Microsoft Res., Redmond, WA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

195

Abstract

A sequence of images taken along a camera trajectory captures a subset of scene appearance. If visibility space is the space that encapsulates the appearance of the scene at every conceivable pose and viewing angle, then the act of acquiring the image sequence constitutes “carving a volume in visibility space.” We call such a volume a visual tunnel. The analysis of the visual tunnel allows us to do the following: predict the range of virtual camera poses in which the images can be reconstructed totally using the captured rays, predict which parts of the image can be generated for a given virtual camera pose, and plan camera paths for scene visualization at desired locations. We describe our visual tunnel concept and provide illustrative examples in 2D and 3D

Keywords

image reconstruction; image sequences; rendering (computer graphics); camera planning; image sequence; image-based rendering; scene appearance; scene visualization; visibility prediction; visibility space; visual tunnel; Cameras; Computational geometry; Image databases; Image reconstruction; Image sequences; Layout; Rendering (computer graphics); Robot vision systems; Space technology; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Hilton Head Island, SC

ISSN

1063-6919

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0662-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVPR.2000.854780

Filename

854780