High accuracy optical flow serves 3-D pose tracking: Exploiting contour and flow based constraints

Thomas Brox, Bodo Rosenhahn, Daniel Cremers, Hans Peter Seidel

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Abstract

Tracking the 3-D pose of an object needs correspondences between 2-D features in the image and their 3-D counterparts in the object model. A large variety of such features has been suggested in the literature. All of them have drawbacks in one situation or the other since their extraction in the image and/or the matching is prone to errors. In this paper, we propose to use two complementary types of features for pose tracking, such that one type makes up for the shortcomings of the other. Aside from the object contour, which is matched to a free-form object surface, we suggest to employ the optic flow in order to compute additional point correspondences, Optic flow estimation is a mature research field with sophisticated algorithms available. Using here a high quality method ensures a reliable matching, In our experiments we demonstrate the performance of our method and in particular the improvements due to the optic flow.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision - ECCV 2006, 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, Proceedings
Pages98-111
Number of pages14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 7 May 200613 May 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3952 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period7/05/0613/05/06

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