View Morphing: Uniquely Predicting Scene Appearance from Basis Images - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

View Morphing: Uniquely Predicting Scene Appearance from Basis Images

Steven Seitz and C. R. Dyer
Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '97), pp. 881 - 887, May, 1997

Abstract

This paper analyzes the conditions when a discrete set of images implicitly describes scene appearance for a continuous range of viewpoints. It is shown that two basis views of a static scene uniquely determine the set of all views on the line between their optical centers when a visibility constraint is satisfied. Additional basis views extend the range of predictable views to 2D or 3D regions of viewpoints. A simple scanline algorithm called view morphing is presented for generating these views from a set of basis images. The technique is applicable to both calibrated and uncalibrated images.

BibTeX

@workshop{Seitz-1997-16476,
author = {Steven Seitz and C. R. Dyer},
title = {View Morphing: Uniquely Predicting Scene Appearance from Basis Images},
booktitle = {Proceedings of DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '97)},
year = {1997},
month = {May},
pages = {881 - 887},
}