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Epipolar line: A point in the right frame and
the focal point defines a 3-D line that projects
to the other frame (via a focal point) to give the epipolar line.
Clear is that a given point in one frame and the two focal points
define a plane that crosses the two image planes to yield
corresponding epipolar lines.
PAPERS and ABSTRACTS
H. Ishikawa and D. Geiger
Fifth European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'98), 1998.
Binocular stereo is the process of obtaining depth information from a
pair of left and right views of a scene. We present a new approach to
compute the disparity map by solving a global optimization problem
that models occlusions, discontinuities, and epipolar-line
interactions.
In the model, geometric constraints require every disparity
discontinuity along the epipolar line in one eye to {\it always}
correspond to an occluded region in the other eye, while at the same
time encouraging smoothness across epipolar lines. Smoothing
coefficients are adjusted according to the edge and junction
information. For some well-defined set of optimization functions, we
can map the optimization problem to a maximum-flow problem on a
directed graph in a novel way, which enables us to obtain a global
solution in a polynomial time. Experiments confirm the validity of
this approach.
Occlusions and Binocular Stereo
D. Geiger and B. Ladendorf and A. Yuille
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 14, pp-211--226, 1995.
Binocular stereo is the process of obtaining depth information from a
pair of cameras. In the past, stereo algorithms have had problems at
occlusions and have tended to fail there (though sometimes
post-processing has been added to mitigate the worst effects). We
show that, on the contrary, occlusions can help stereo computation by
providing cues for depth discontinuities.
We describe a theory for stereo based on the Bayesian approach, using
adaptive windows and a prior weak smoothness constraint, which
incorporates occlusion. Our model assumes that a disparity
discontinuity, along the epipolar line, in one eye {\it always}
corresponds to an occluded region in the other eye thus, leading to an
{\it occlusion constraint}. This constraint restricts the space of
possible disparity values, thereby simplifying the computations. An
estimation of the disparity at occluded features is also discussed in
light of psychophysical experiments. Using dynamic programming we can
find the optimal solution to our system and the experimental results
are good and support the assumptions made by the model.
Stereo Vision via Markov Models
D. Geiger and L. Maloney and K. Kumaran
Allerton Conference in Computer Science, 1995.
Binocular stereo is the process of obtaining depth information from two simultaneous views of a scene. The performance of computational stereo algorithms remains distinctly inferior to human performance, and at the same time, many phenomena in human stereo vision (transparency, Da Vinci stereopsis, subjective contours) have no natural place in these algorithms.
Through the framework of hidden Markov models we formulate a stereo algorithm that match along epipolar lines (one dimensional). Our aim is to introduce, in a simple and yet general manner, constraints that can account for these psychophysical phenomena. The first result is a distinctive neighborhood structure for our model and these various properties of stereo, such as occlusions, disparity discontinuity, transparency, are accounted. In order for us to fully address the problem of subjective contours the model is extended to two dimensions and a Markov random field model emerges. Finally we discuss the primitives of stereo, proposing differential geometric features, and studying their relation to occlusions, discontinuities and transparency. Initial experiments demonstrate the power of our formulation.
Here are papers that I do not have online
Stereo, mean field theory and psychophysics,
A. Yuille, D.Geiger and H. H. Bulthoff (1991)
Network: Computation in Neural Systems. Vol 2, pp 423-442.