Coupled structure-from-motion and 3D symmetry detection for urban facades
Duygu Ceylan, Niloy J. Mitra, Youyi Zheng, Mark Pauly
In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(1), January 2014.
Abstract: Repeated structures are ubiquitous in urban facades. Such repetitions lead to ambiguity in establishing correspondences across sets of unordered images. A decoupled structure-from-motion reconstruction followed by symmetry detection often produces errors: outputs are either noisy and incomplete, or even worse, appear to be valid but actually have a wrong number of repeated elements. We present an optimization framework for extracting repeated elements in images of urban facades, while simultaneously calibrating the input images and recovering the 3D scene geometry using a graph-based global analysis. We evaluate the robustness of the proposed scheme on a range of challenging examples containing widespread repetitions and nondistinctive features. These image sets are common but cannot be handled well with state-of-the-art methods. We show that the recovered symmetry information along with the 3D geometry enables a range of novel image editing operations that maintain consistency across the images.
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2517348
BibTeX format:
@article{Ceylan:2013:CSA,
  author = {Duygu Ceylan and Niloy J. Mitra and Youyi Zheng and Mark Pauly},
  title = {Coupled structure-from-motion and 3D symmetry detection for urban facades},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  volume = {33},
  number = {1},
  pages = {2:1--2:15},
  month = jan,
  year = {2014},
}
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