3D Reconstruction in the presence of glasses by acoustic and stereo fusion

Mao Ye, Yu Zhang, Ruigang Yang, Dinesh Manocha

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Abstract

We present a practical and inexpensive method to reconstruct 3D scenes that include piece-wise planar transparent objects. Our work is motivated by the need for automatically generating 3D models of interior scenes, in which glass structures are common. These large structures are often invisible to cameras or even our human visual system. Existing 3D reconstruction methods for transparent objects are usually not applicable in such a room-size reconstruction setting. Our approach augments a regular depth camera (e.g., the Microsoft Kinect camera) with a single ultrasonic sensor, which is able to measure distance to any objects, including transparent surfaces. We present a novel sensor fusion algorithm that first segments the depth map into different categories such as opaque/transparent/infinity (e.g., too far to measure) and then updates the depth map based on the segmentation outcome. Our current hardware setup can generate only one additional point measurement per frame, yet our fusion algorithm is able to generate satisfactory reconstruction results based on our probabilistic model. We highlight the performance in many challenging indoor benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015
Pages4885-4893
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781467369640
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 14 2015
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015 - Boston, United States
Duration: Jun 7 2015Jun 12 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume07-12-June-2015
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period6/7/156/12/15

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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