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Chapter 9, 3D Vision (Part I)

Chapter 9 Overview:

9.1 3D vision tasks
Marr's theory
Other vision paradigms: Active and purposive vision
9.2 Geometry for 3D vision
Basics of projective geometry
The single perspective camera
An overview of single camera calibration
Calibration of one camera from the known scene
Two cameras, stereopsis
The geometry of two cameras. The fundamental matrix
Relative motion of the camera; the essential matrix
Estimation of a fundamental matrix from image point correspondences
Applications of the epipolar geometry in vision
Three and more cameras
Stereo correspondence algorithms
Active acquisition of range images
9.3 Radiometry and 3D vision
Grey level of a captured pixel from a radiometric point of view
Surface reflectance
Shape from shading
Photometric stereo

Last Modified: April 20, 1997