Euclidean reconstruction from contour matches

Abstract

This paper presents a method that recovers an Euclidean structure from contour matching results. If three or more views are available, structure reconstruction without camera calibration is possible. This is the first attempt at structure reconstruction from contour matches, though there are works on structure reconstruction from point matches. We also propose a new method that integrates more than one reconstructed 3D structure whose coordinates are represented by different camera projection matrices, so that the structures are uniformly represented by the projection matrix of the first camera. (C) 2002 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.