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Capturing 2?D Depth and Texture of Time-Varying Scenes Using Structured Infrared Light
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 13-June 16
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Christian Frueh, University of California at Berkeley
Avideh Zakhor, University of California at Berkeley
In this paper, we describe an approach to simultaneously capture visual appearance and depth of a time-varying scene. Our approach is based on projecting structured infrared (IR) light. Specifically, we project a combination of (a) a static vertical IR stripe pattern, and (b) a horizontal IR laser line sweeping up and down the scene; at the same time, the scene is captured with an IR-sensitive camera. Since IR light is invisible to the human eye, it does not disturb human subjects or interfere with human activities in the scene; in addition, it does not affect the scene?s visual appearance as recorded by a color video camera. Vertical lines in the IR frames are identified using the horizontal line, intra-frame tracking, and inter-frame tracking; depth along these lines is reconstructed via triangulation. Interpolating these sparse depth lines within the foreground silhouette of the recorded video sequence, we obtain a dense depth map for every frame in the video sequence. Experimental results corresponding to a dynamic scene with a human subject in motion are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Index Terms:
dynamic scene, motion capture, structured light
Citation:
Christian Frueh, Avideh Zakhor, "Capturing 2?D Depth and Texture of Time-Varying Scenes Using Structured Infrared Light," 3dim, pp.318-325, Fifth International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM'05), 2005
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