{"title":"The impact of viewing geometry on vision through the atmosphere","authors":"Pei-hsiu Suen, G. Healey, D. Slater","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937660","url":null,"abstract":"An increase in the off-nadir viewing angle for an airborne visible/near-infrared through short-wave infrared (VNIR/SWIR) imaging spectrometer leads to a decrease in upward atmospheric transmittance and an increase in line-of-sight scattered path radiance. These effects combine to reduce the spectral contrast between different materials in the sensed signal. We analyze the impact of viewing angle on material discriminability for 237 materials over a wide range of conditions. Material discriminability is quantified using a statistical algorithm that employs a subspace model to represent the set of spectra for a material as conditions vary. We show that reliable material discrimination is possible over a range of conditions even for large off-nadir viewing angles. We illustrate the performance of material identification over different viewing angles using simulated forest hyperspectral images.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114655014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lambertian reflectance and linear subspaces","authors":"R. Basri, D. Jacobs","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937651","url":null,"abstract":"We prove that the set of all reflectance functions (the mapping from surface normals to intensities) produced by Lambertian objects under distant, isotropic lighting lies close to a 9D linear subspace. This implies that the images of a convex Lambertian object obtained under a wide variety of lighting conditions can be approximated accurately with a low-dimensional linear subspace, explaining prior empirical results. We also provide a simple analytic characterization of this linear space. We obtain these results by representing lighting using spherical harmonics and describing the effects of Lambertian materials as the analog of a convolution. These results allow us to construct algorithms for object recognition based on linear methods as well as algorithms that use convex optimization to enforce non-negative lighting functions.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121991638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affine 3-D reconstruction from two projective images of independently translating planes","authors":"Lior Wolf, A. Shashua","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937630","url":null,"abstract":"Consider two views of a multi-body scene consisting of k planar bodies moving in pure translation one relative to the other. We show that the fundamental matrices, one per body, live in a 3-dimensional subspace, which when represented as a step-3 extensor is the common transversal on the collection of extensors defined by the homograph matrices H/sub 1/,...,H/sub k/ of the moving planes. We show that as much as five bodies are necessary for recovering the common transversal from the homograph matrices, from which we show how to recover the fundamental matrices and the affine calibration between the two cameras.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122020472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incorporating differential constraints in a 3D reconstruction process application to stereo","authors":"R. Lengagne, P. Fua","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937569","url":null,"abstract":"We propose to incorporate a priori geometric constraints in a 3-D stereo reconstruction scheme to cope with the many cases where image information alone is not sufficient to accurately recover 3-D shape. Our approach is based on the iterative deformation of a 3-D surface mesh to minimize an objective function. We show that combining anisotropic meshing with a nonquadratic approach to regularization enables us to obtain satisfactory reconstruction results using triangulations with few vertices. Structural or numerical constraints can then be added locally to the reconstruction process through a constrained optimization scheme. They improve the reconstruction results and enforce their consistency with a priori knowledge about object shape. The strong description and modeling properties of differential features make them useful tools that can be efficiently used as constraints for 3-D reconstruction.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125972047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People tracking using hybrid Monte Carlo filtering","authors":"Kiam Choo, David J. Fleet","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937643","url":null,"abstract":"Particle filters are used for hidden state estimation with nonlinear dynamical systems. The inference of 3-D human motion is a natural application, given the nonlinear dynamics of the body and the nonlinear relation between states and image observations. However, the application of particle filters has been limited to cases where the number of state variables is relatively small, because the number of samples needed with high dimensional problems can be prohibitive. We describe a filter that uses hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) to obtain samples in high dimensional spaces. It uses multiple Markov chains that use posterior gradients to rapidly explore the state space, yielding fair samples from the posterior. We find that the HMC filter is several thousand times faster than a conventional particle filter on a 28 D people tracking problem.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128158266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biologically motivated, precise and simple calibration and reconstruction using a stereo light microscope","authors":"Lars Eckert, R. Grigat","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937609","url":null,"abstract":"Stereoscopic calibration and reconstruction is applied to the specialized optics of a binocular monobjective stereo light microscope. Such a microscope exhibits a special kind of image distortion. Despite the difficulty of modelling the microscope, a simple calibration method as well as a fast and simple, yet precise, reconstruction algorithm is developed. Their fundamental scheme is based upon biological binocular vision. The reconstruction uses polynomial approximations up to a degree of 2 and thus has a very low computational complexity. The polynomial coefficients are identified during calibration and their number is minimal by construction. No lens data is required. Both the calibration and reconstruction algorithm are robust against a rigid motion of the microscope. Their power is proven with real data using an off-the-shelf PC.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128220902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Separation of multiple objects in motion images by clustering","authors":"K. Inoue, K. Urahama","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937521","url":null,"abstract":"A method is presented for estimating the number of rigid objects moving independently and separating the feature points tracked on a motion image into individual objects by clustering. In the method, feature points are firstly mapped into a low dimensional space suitable for grouping them into each object. In this low dimensional space, clusters are extracted sequentially by a graph spectral method. The number of clusters i.e. objects can be estimated on the basis of the variation in the cohesiveness of extracted clusters. We show by numerical experiments that the present method is robust to moderate measurement noises and distortion by perspective projection.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128239203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving AR using shadows arising from natural illumination distribution in video sequences","authors":"Taeone Kim, Y. Seo, K. Hong","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937644","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method for generating realistic shadows of virtual objects inserted into a real video sequence. Our aim is to improve and extend the work of Sato, Sato, and Ikeuchi, (1999), which is based on a static camera, to the case of a video sequence. This extension consists of several procedures: calibration of a moving video camera and a graphic camera, removing false shadows occurring due to a shortcoming of the static camera approach for the estimation of an illumination distribution, and so on. The calibration of the moving camera is solved by camera self-calibration and, with it, we designed a flexible graphic world coordinate system embedding technique called \"match move\". We also show that the shortcoming of the previous static camera approach is overcome by using information from video sequence. Finally we present the experimental results of a real video sequence.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127016239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation of innovative information in non-linear least-squares structure from motion","authors":"Drew Steedly, Irfan Essa","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937628","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new technique that improves upon existing structure from motion (SFM) methods. We propose a SFM algorithm that is both recursive and optimal. Our method incorporates innovative information from new frames into an existing solution without optimizing every camera pose and scene structure parameter. To do this, we incrementally optimize larger subsets of parameters until the error is minimized. These additional parameters are included in the optimization by tracing connections between points and frames. In many cases, the complexity of adding a frame is much smaller than full bundle adjustment of all the parameters. Our algorithm is best described us incremental bundle adjustment as it allows new information to be added to art existing non-linear least-squares solution.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130663562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Markov face models","authors":"S. Dass, Anil K. Jain","doi":"10.1109/ICCV.2001.937692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2001.937692","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial distribution of gray level intensities in an image can be naturally modeled using Markov random field (MRF) models. We develop and investigate the performance of face detection algorithms derived from MRF considerations. For enhanced detection, the MRF models are defined for every permutation of site indices (pixels) in the image. We find the optimal permutation that provides maximum discriminatory power to identify faces from nonfaces. The methodology presented here is a generalization of the face detection algorithm described previously where a most discriminating Markov chain model was used. The MRF models successfully detect faces in a number of test images.","PeriodicalId":429441,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. ICCV 2001","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132381641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}