A tool for artificial reality: from views to object representation

Deals with a robust technique which is able to synthesize the volumetric structure of an object from a set of 2D perspective views where the object silhouette has been extracted. The surface texture is also recovered from the views. The final model is a closed polygon mesh surface integrated with texture informations, and it is thus suitable for standard graphic rendering. The proposed procedure can be used to obtain real world object representations starting from real views instead of manually building them by means of solid modeling and painting systems. As shown by the reported experiments, the results are promising in all cases where the objects can be accurately reconstructed from the occluding contours technique, i.e. when the concavities, if present, are visible in the projected object silhouettes