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Geometric Context from a Single Image

Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, and Martial Hebert
International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), October, 2005, pp. 654 - 661.

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Abstract

Many computer vision algorithms limit their performance by ignoring the underlying 3D geometric structure in the image. We show that we can estimate the coarse geometric properties of a scene by learning appearance-based models of geometric classes, even in cluttered natural scenes. Geometric classes describe the 3D orientation of an image region with respect to the camera. We provide a multiple-hypothesis framework for robustly estimating scene structure from a single image and obtaining confidences for each geometric label. These confidences can then be used to improve the performance of many other applications. We provide a thorough quantitative evaluation of our algorithm on a set of outdoor images and demonstrate its usefulness in two applications: object detection and automatic single-view reconstruction.

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Associated Project(s): Object Recognition Using Statistical Modeling and Geometrically Coherent Image Interpretation Number of pages: 8

Text Reference

Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, and Martial Hebert, "Geometric Context from a Single Image," International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), October, 2005, pp. 654 - 661.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Hoiem_2005_5164,    author = "Derek Hoiem and Alexei A. Efros and Martial Hebert",    title = "Geometric Context from a Single Image",    booktitle = "International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV)",    pages = "654 - 661",    publisher = "IEEE",    month = "October",    year = "2005",    volume = "1", }