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[paxdan]

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive Three Dimensions in 2-D Images

Program Automatically Generates 3-D Models From a Single Photograph


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Automatic Photo Pop-up
Our system automatically constructs simple "pop-up" 3D models, like those one would find in a children's book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-vertical boundary in the image and an estimate of the horizon's position provide the necessary information to determine where to "cut" and "fold" in the image. The model is then popped up, and the image is texture mapped onto the model.

This work is part of an on-going effort in Geometrically Coherent Image Interpretation. In our ICCV'05 paper Geometric Context from a Single Image, we provide a quantitative analysis of our system and extend our work by subclassifying vertical regions and using the geometric labels as context for object detection. In our newest CVPR'06 paper, Putting Objects in Perspective, we show how 3D reasoning can be used to aid in object detection.

[CosmicRocker]

I was ready to take it for a spin, but then read the fine print. One needs the Matlab software to execute the program.

[bmoskovi]

I was ready to take it for a spin, but then read the fine print. One needs the Matlab software to execute the program.

You might like to check out Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/). It is a Matlab clone.