3D object localization using single camera images

In this paper we propose a generic 6d object localization approach based on surface normal images and CAD model data. Normal images or “normal maps” can be obtained using only one single camera shot of a simple camera-projector system. The advantages of this sensor setup are very short acquisition times and the exclusive use of consumer hardware, namely a projector and a grey value camera, making it easy and cheap to build up. All computations are analytically tractable and can be computed in the Fourier domain allowing a very effective and fast computation.