All the Images of an Outdoor Scene

The appearance of an outdoor scene depends on a variety of factors such as viewing geometry, scene structure and reflectance (BRDF or BTF), illumination (sun, moon, stars, street lamps), atmospheric condition (clear air, fog, rain) and weathering (or aging) of materials. Over time, these factors change, altering the way a scene appears. A large set of images is required to study the entire variability in scene appearance. In this paper, we present a database of high quality registered and calibrated images of a fixed outdoor scene captured every hour for over 5 months. The dataset covers a wide range of daylight and night illumination conditions, weather conditions and seasons. We describe in detail the image acquisition and sensor calibration procedures. The images are tagged with a variety of ground truth data such as weather and illumination conditions and actual scene depths. This database has potential implications for vision, graphics, image processing and atmospheric sciences an...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ECCV
• Authors: Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Chi Wang, Shree K. Nayar
• Keywords: Actual Scene Depths, Appearance The Appearance, Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, Outdoor Scene, Scene Appearance, Scene Structure