An Integrated Approach for Segmentation and Estimation of Planar Structures
Date
2000-12-04
DOI
Authors
Alon, Jonathan
Sclaroff, Stan
Version
OA Version
Citation
Alon, Joni; Sclaroff, Stan. "An Integrated Approach for Segmentation and Estimation of Planar Structures", Technical Report BUCS-2000-023, Computer Science Department, Boston University, December 4, 2000. [Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1816]
Abstract
Standard structure from motion algorithms recover 3D structure of points. If a surface representation is desired, for example a piece-wise planar representation, then a two-step procedure typically follows: in the first step the plane-membership of points is first determined manually, and in a subsequent step planes are fitted to the sets of points thus determined, and their parameters are recovered. This paper presents an approach for automatically segmenting planar structures from a sequence of images, and simultaneously estimating their parameters. In the proposed approach the plane-membership of points is determined automatically, and the planar structure parameters are recovered directly in the algorithm rather than indirectly in a post-processing stage. Simulated and real experimental results show the efficacy of this approach.