to appear proceedings SPIE Electronic Imaging 2000, Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications III

Modeling of three-dimensional (3D) objects from image sequences is a challenging problem and has been a research topic for many years. Important theoretical and algorithmic results were achieved that allow to extract even complex 3D models of scenes from sequences of images. One recent effort has been to reduce the amount of calibration and to avoid restrictions on the camera motion. In this contribution an approach is described which achieves this goal by combining state-of-the-art algorithms for uncalibrated projective reconstruction, self-calibration and dense correspondence matching.

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