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Recovering the 3D Geometry of Heritage Monuments from Image Collections

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Several methods have been proposed for large-scale 3D reconstruction from large, unorganized image collections. A large reconstruction problem is typically divided into multiple components which are reconstructed independently using structure from motion (SFM) and later merged together. Incremental SFM methods are most popular for the basic structure recovery of a single component. They are robust and effective but strictly sequential in nature. We present a multistage approach for SFM reconstruction of a single component that breaks the sequential nature of the incremental SFM methods. Our approach begins with quickly building a coarse 3D model using only a fraction of features from given images. The coarse model is then enriched by localizing remaining images and matching and triangulating remaining features in subsequent stages. The geometric information available in the form of the coarse model allows us to make these stages effective, efficient, and highly parallel. We show that our method produces similar quality models as compared to standard SFM methods while being notably fast and parallel.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by Google India PhD Fellowship and India Digital Heritage Project of the Department of Science and Technology, India. We would like to thank Vanshika Srivastava for her contributions to the project and Chris Sweeney for his crucial help regarding use of Theia for our experiments. We would also like to thank the authors of [8] for sharing the details of the Hampi Vitthala Temple dataset they used.

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    Rajvi Shah, Aditya Deshpande, Anoop M. Namboodiri & P. J. Narayanan

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Shah, R., Deshpande, A., Namboodiri, A.M., Narayanan, P.J. (2017). Recovering the 3D Geometry of Heritage Monuments from Image Collections. In: Mallik, A., Chaudhury, S., Chandru, V., Srinivasan, S. (eds) Digital Hampi: Preserving Indian Cultural Heritage. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5738-0_8

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