Title :
Bayesian structure from motion
Author :
Forsyth, D.A. ; Ioffe, S. ; Haddon, J.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Div., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Formulates structure from motion as a Bayesian inference problem and uses a Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampler to sample the posterior on this problem. This results in a method that can identify both small and large tracker errors and yields reconstructions that are stable in the presence of these errors. Furthermore, the method gives detailed information on the range of ambiguities in structure given a particular data set and requires no special geometric formulation to cope with degenerate situations. Motion segmentation is obtained by a layer of discrete variables associating a point with an object. We demonstrate a sampler that successfully samples an approximation to the marginal on this domain, producing a relatively unambiguous segmentation
Keywords :
Bayes methods; Markov processes; computer vision; error detection; image reconstruction; image segmentation; importance sampling; inference mechanisms; motion estimation; uncertainty handling; Bayesian inference problem; Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampling; degenerate situations; discrete variables; marginal approximation; motion segmentation; point-object association; posterior distribution; stable image reconstruction; structural ambiguities; structure from motion; tracker errors; unambiguous segmentation; Bayesian methods; Computer science; Computer vision; Density functional theory; Motion segmentation; Position measurement; Proposals; Reactive power; Rotation measurement; Sampling methods;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision, 1999. The Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kerkyra
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0164-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICCV.1999.791288