Publication

Contour-based 3d motion recovery while zooming

Journal Article (2003)

Journal

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Pages

219-227

Volume

44

Number

3

Doc link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8890(03)00072-1

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Abstract

This paper considers the problem of 3D motion recovery from a sequence of monocular images while zooming. Unlike the common trend based on point matches, the proposed method relies on the deformation of an active contour fitted to a reference object. We derive the relation between the contour deformation and the 3D motion components, assuming time-varying focal length and principal point. This relation allows us to present a method to extract the rotation matrix and the scaled translation along the optical axis.

Categories

automation, pattern recognition.

Author keywords

3d motion recovery, egomotion, visual odometry, autocalibration, time-varying internal parameters, active contours, planar constraints

Scientific reference

E. Martinez and C. Torras. Contour-based 3d motion recovery while zooming. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 44(3): 219-227, 2003.