Abstract
Creation of virtual reality models from photographs is very complex and time-consuming process, that requires special equipment like laser scanners, a large number of photographs and manual interaction. In this work we present a method for generating of surface geometry of photographed scene. Our approach is based on the phenomenon of shallow depth-of-field in close-up photography. Representing such surface details is useful to increase the visual realism in a range of application areas, especially biological structures or microorganisms.
For testing purposes a set of images of the same scene is taken from a typical digital camera with macro lenses with a different depth-of-field. Our new image fusion method employs discrete Fourier transform to designate sharp regions in this set of images, combine them together into a fully focused image and finally produce a height field map. Further image processing algorithms approximate three dimensional surface using this height field map and a fused image. Experimental results show that our method works for wide range of cases and gives a good tool for acquiring surfaces from a few photographs.
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Denkowski, M., Chlebiej, M., Mikołajczak, P. (2009). A New Image Fusion Method for Estimating 3D Surface Depth. In: Bolc, L., Kulikowski, J.L., Wojciechowski, K. (eds) Computer Vision and Graphics. ICCVG 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5337. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_10
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