In
computer vision
Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...
, photo-consistency determines whether a given
voxel
In computing, a voxel is a representation of a value on a three-dimensional regular grid, akin to the two-dimensional pixel. Voxels are frequently used in the Data visualization, visualization and analysis of medical imaging, medical and scient ...
is occupied. A voxel is considered to be photo consistent when its color appears to be similar to all the cameras that can see it. Most voxel coloring or space carving techniques require using photo consistency as a check condition in
Image-based modeling and rendering
In computer graphics and computer vision, image-based modeling and rendering (IBMR) methods rely on a set of two-dimensional images of a scene to generate a three-dimensional model and then render some novel views of this scene.
The traditional ...
applications.
Usage
3D Volumetric Reconstruction.
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Image registration
Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system. Data may be multiple photographs, data from different sensors, times, depths, or viewpoints. It is used in computer vision, medical imaging, mil ...
.
* Multi-view reconstruction.
[Sudipta N. Sinha ]Marc Pollefeys
Marc Pollefeys (born 1 May 1971) is a Belgian computer scientist and professor for computer science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as well as partner director of science at Microsoft. He is director of Microsoft's ''Mixed Reality & AI Lab – Zurich' ...
Multi-view Reconstruction using Photo-consistency and Exact Silhouette Constraints: A Maximum-Flow Formulation
References
Computer vision
Stereoscopy
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