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Cross-calibration of Time-of-flight and Colour Cameras
Time-of-flight cameras provide depth information, which is complementary to
the photometric appearance of the scene in ordinary images. It is desirable to
merge the depth and colour information, in order to obtain a coherent scene
representation. However, the individual cameras will have different viewpoints,
resolutions and fields of view, which means that they must be mutually
calibrated. This paper presents a geometric framework for this multi-view and
multi-modal calibration problem. It is shown that three-dimensional projective
transformations can be used to align depth and parallax-based representations
of the scene, with or without Euclidean reconstruction. A new evaluation
procedure is also developed; this allows the reprojection error to be
decomposed into calibration and sensor-dependent components. The complete
approach is demonstrated on a network of three time-of-flight and six colour
cameras. The applications of such a system, to a range of automatic
scene-interpretation problems, are discussed.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures, 3 table
Tackling 3D ToF Artifacts Through Learning and the FLAT Dataset
Scene motion, multiple reflections, and sensor noise introduce artifacts in
the depth reconstruction performed by time-of-flight cameras. We propose a
two-stage, deep-learning approach to address all of these sources of artifacts
simultaneously. We also introduce FLAT, a synthetic dataset of 2000 ToF
measurements that capture all of these nonidealities, and allows to simulate
different camera hardware. Using the Kinect 2 camera as a baseline, we show
improved reconstruction errors over state-of-the-art methods, on both simulated
and real data.Comment: ECCV 201
Stereo and ToF Data Fusion by Learning from Synthetic Data
Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors and stereo vision systems are both capable of acquiring depth information but they have complementary characteristics and issues. A more accurate representation of the scene geometry can be obtained by fusing the two depth sources. In this paper we present a novel framework for data fusion where the contribution of the two depth sources is controlled by confidence measures that are jointly estimated using a Convolutional Neural Network. The two depth sources are fused enforcing the local consistency of depth data, taking into account the estimated confidence information. The deep network is trained using a synthetic dataset and we show how the classifier is able to generalize to different data, obtaining reliable estimations not only on synthetic data but also on real world scenes. Experimental results show that the proposed approach increases the accuracy of the depth estimation on both synthetic and real data and that it is able to outperform state-of-the-art methods
Real-Time Panoramic Tracking for Event Cameras
Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full
frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes.
Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick
movements of objects in the scene or of the camera itself. In this work we
propose a novel method to perform camera tracking of event cameras in a
panoramic setting with three degrees of freedom. We propose a direct camera
tracking formulation, similar to state-of-the-art in visual odometry. We show
that the minimal information needed for simultaneous tracking and mapping is
the spatial position of events, without using the appearance of the imaged
scene point. We verify the robustness to fast camera movements and dynamic
objects in the scene on a recently proposed dataset and self-recorded
sequences.Comment: Accepted to International Conference on Computational Photography
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