Title
Vanishing Points Estimation By Self-Similarity
Abstract
This paper presents a novel self-similarity based approach for the problem of vanishing point estimation in man-made scenes. A vanishing point (VP) is the convergence point of a pencil (a concurrent line set), that is a perspective projection of a corresponding parallel line set in the scene. Unlike traditional VP detection that relies on extraction and grouping of individual straight lines, our approach detects entire pencils based on a property of 1D affine-similarity between parallel cross-sections of a pencil. Our approach is not limited to real pencils. Under some conditions (normally met in man-made scenes), our method can detect pencils made of virtual lines passing through similar image features, and hence can detect VPs from repeating patterns that do not contain straight edges. We demonstrate that detecting entire pencils rather than individual lines improves the detection robustness in that it improves VP detection in challenging conditions, such as very-low resolution or weak edges, and simultaneously reduces VP false-detection rate when only a small number of lines are detectable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/CVPRW.2009.5206713
CVPR: 2009 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOLS 1-4
Keywords
Field
DocType
cross section,robustness,data mining,shape,computer vision,surface texture,image features,low resolution,estimation,self similarity,layout,vanishing point,convergence,perspective projection,feature extraction,image resolution
Computer vision,Object detection,Feature (computer vision),Computer science,Feature extraction,Perspective (graphical),Parallel,Artificial intelligence,Pencil (mathematics),Self-similarity,Vanishing point
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2009
1
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hadas Kogan1101.66
Ron Maurer2111.70
Renato Keshet333827.26