English

Real-time Halfway Domain Reconstruction of Motion and Geometry

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2016-10-25 v1

Abstract

We present a novel approach for real-time joint reconstruction of 3D scene motion and geometry from binocular stereo videos. Our approach is based on a novel variational halfway-domain scene flow formulation, which allows us to obtain highly accurate spatiotemporal reconstructions of shape and motion. We solve the underlying optimization problem at real-time frame rates using a novel data-parallel robust non-linear optimization strategy. Fast convergence and large displacement flows are achieved by employing a novel hierarchy that stores delta flows between hierarchy levels. High performance is obtained by the introduction of a coarser warp grid that decouples the number of unknowns from the input resolution of the images. We demonstrate our approach in a live setup that is based on two commodity webcams, as well as on publicly available video data. Our extensive experiments and evaluations show that our approach produces high-quality dense reconstructions of 3D geometry and scene flow at real-time frame rates, and compares favorably to the state of the art.

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@article{arxiv.1610.07159,
  title  = {Real-time Halfway Domain Reconstruction of Motion and Geometry},
  author = {Lucas Thies and Michael Zollhöfer and Christian Richardt and Christian Theobalt and Günther Greiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07159},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Proc. of the International Conference on 3D Vision 2016 (3DV 2016)