Epipolar Plane Image Rectification and Flat Surface Detection in Light Field

Flat surface detection is one of the most common geometry inferences in computer vision. In this paper we propose detecting printed photos from original scenes, which fully exploit angular information of light field and characteristics of the flat surface. Unlike previous methods, our method does no...

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Main Authors: Lipeng Si, Hao Zhu, Qing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6142795
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Summary:Flat surface detection is one of the most common geometry inferences in computer vision. In this paper we propose detecting printed photos from original scenes, which fully exploit angular information of light field and characteristics of the flat surface. Unlike previous methods, our method does not need a prior depth estimation. The algorithm rectifies the mess epipolar lines in the epipolar plane image (EPI). Then feature points are extracted from light field data and used to compute an energy ratio in the depth distribution of the scene. Based on the energy ratio, a feature vector is constructed and we obtain robust detection of flat surface. Apart from flat surface detection, the kernel rectification algorithm in our method can be expanded to inclined plane refocusing and continuous depth estimation for flat surface. Experiments on the public datasets and our collections have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
ISSN:2090-0147
2090-0155