Multimodal 3D Shape Recovery from Texture, Silhouette and Shadow Information

Recent efforts attempt to combine together information of different passive methods. Critical issues in this research are the choice of data and how to combine such data in order to increase the overall information. The combination of stereo matching and silhouette information has recently received considerable attention both for obtaining high quality 3D models and for modelling 3D dynamic scenes. In this paper we present a 3D shape recovery system which fuse together silhouette, texture and shadow information. More precisely, we formulate the fusion problem of these three types of information. Experimental verification shows that the new method is capable to reconstruct a wider range of objects.