Creating Architectural Models from Images

We present methods for creating 3D graphical models of scenes from a limited numbers of images, i.e. one or two, in situations where no scene co-ordinate measurements are available. The methods employ constraints available from geometric relationships that are common in architectural scenes -- such as parallelism and orthogonality -together with constraints available from the camera. In particular, by using the circular points of a plane simple, linear algorithms are given for computing plane rectification, plane orientation and camera calibration from a single image. Examples of image based 3D modelling are given for both single images and image pairs.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1999
• Where: CGF
• Authors: David Liebowitz, Antonio Criminisi, Andrew Zisserman
• Keywords: CGF 1999, Image, Limited Numbers, Single Images