Multi-View Stereo for Community Photo Collections

Michael Goesele, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, Hugues Hoppe, Steven M. Seitz

photos varies substantially in lighting, foreground clutter, scale due to various cameras, time, weather

Images of Notre Dame (a variation in sampling rate of more than 1,000)

Images taken in the wild—wide variety

Lots of photographers

Different cameras

Sampling rates

Occlusion

Different time of day, weather

Post processing

The problem statement

Design an adaptive view selection process Given the massive number of images, find a compatible subset

Multi View Stereo (MVS) Reconstruct robust & accurate depth maps from this subset

Previous workGlobal View Selection assume a relatively uniform viewpoint distribution and simply choose the k nearest images from each reference viewLocal View Selection use shiftable windows in time to adaptively choose frames to match

CPC non-uniformly distributed in 7D viewpoint(translation, rotation, focal length) space- represents an extreme case of unorganized images sets

Algorithm overview:- Calibrating Internet Photos- Global View Selection- Local View Selection- Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction

Calibrating Internet Photos• PTLens extracts camera and lens information and corrects for

radial distortion based on a database of camera and lens properties

• Discard images cannot be corrected• Remaining images entered into a robust, metric structure-from-

motion (SfM) system (uses SIFT feature detector) - generate a sparse scene reconstruction from the matched features - list of images where feature was detectedRemove Radiometric Distortions - all input images into a linear radiometric space (sRGB color space)

Global View Selection

For each reference view R, global view selection seeks a set N of neighboring views that are good candidates for stereo matching in terms of scene content, appearance, and scale

SIFT selects features with similar appearance - Shared feature points: collocation problem - Scale invariance: stereo matching problem

need a measurement to deal these two problems !

Global score gR for each view V within a candidate neighborhood N (which includes R)

FV: set of feature points in View V

FV ∩ FR: common feature points of View V and R

wN(f): measure angular separation of two views, the larger, the more separated in angulation

ws(f): measures similarity in scale of two views, the larger, the more similar in scale

Calculating wN(f)

α is the angle between the lines of sight from V i and Vj to f

αmax set to 10 degrees

Calculating ws(f)r = sR(f) / sV(f)

sR(f): diameter of a sphere centered at f whose projected diameter in view V equals the pixel spacing in V

- favors the case 1 ≤ r <2

Add scores of all feature points for all view V and select top N

Rescaling views

If scaleR(Vmin) is smaller than 0.6 (threshold), which means 5x5 R vs 3x3 V, need rescale

Find lowest resolution view Vmin, resample R

Resample view whose scaleR(V) > 1.2 to match the scale of R

Local View Selection

Global view selection determines a set N of good matching candidates for a reference view R

Select a smaller set A N (|A|=4) of active views for stereo ∈matching at a particular location in the reference view

Stereo Matching

Use nxn window centered on point in R

Goal: To maximize photometric consistency of this patch to its projections into the neighboring views

Scene Geometry Model

Photometric Model

Scene Geometry Model

Window centered at pixel (s, t)

oR is the center of projection of view R

rR(s,t) is the normalized ray direction through the pixel

Reference view corresponds to a point xR(s,t) at a distance h(s,t) along the viewing ray rR(s,t)

Photometric Model

Simple model for reflectance effects—a color scale factor ck for each patch projected into the k-th neighboring view

- Models Lambertian reflectance for constant illumination over planar surfaces

- Fails for shadow boundaries, caustics, specular highlights, bumpy surfaces

ResultsSeveral Internet CPCs gather from Flickr varying widely in terms of size, number of photographers and scale

Output

Video demo

Thank you!

Reconstructing Building Interiors from Images

Yasutaka Furukawa Brian Curless Steven M. SeitzUniversity of Washington, Seattle, USA

Richard SzeliskiMicrosoft Research, Redmond, USA

Reconstruction & Visualizationof Architectural Scenes

• Manual (semi-automatic)– Google Earth & Virtual Earth– Façade [Debevec et al., 1996]– CityEngine [Müller et al., 2006, 2007]

• Automatic– Ground-level images [Cornelis et al., 2008, Pollefeys et al., 2008]

– Aerial images [Zebedin et al., 2008]

Google Earth Virtual Earth Zebedin et al.Müller et al.

Reconstruction & Visualizationof Architectural Scenes

• Manual (semi-automatic)– Google Earth & Virtual Earth– Façade [Debevec et al., 1996]– CityEngine [Müller et al., 2006, 2007]

• Automatic– Ground-level images [Cornelis et al., 2008, Pollefeys et al., 2008]

– Aerial images [Zebedin et al., 2008]

Google Earth Virtual Earth Zebedin et al.Müller et al.

Reconstruction & Visualizationof Architectural Scenes

Google Earth Virtual Earth Zebedin et al.Müller et al.

Little attention paid to indoor scenes

Our Goal• Fully automatic system for indoors/outdoors– Reconstructs a simple 3D model from images– Provides real-time interactive visualization

Challenges - Reconstruction

• Multi-view stereo (MVS) typically produces a dense model

• We want the model to be– Simple for real-time interactive visualization of a

large scene (e.g., a whole house)– Accurate for high-quality image-based rendering

Challenges – Indoor Reconstruction

Texture-poor surfaces Complicated visibility

Prevalence of thin structures(doors, walls, tables)

Outline

• System pipeline (system contribution)• Algorithmic details (technical contribution)• Experimental results• Conclusion and future work

System pipeline

Images

Images

System pipeline

Structure-from-Motion

Images

Bundler by Noah SnavelyStructure from Motion for unordered image collectionshttp://phototour.cs.washington.edu/bundler/

System pipeline

Images SFM

PMVS by Yasutaka Furukawa and Jean PoncePatch-based Multi-View Stereo Softwarehttp://grail.cs.washington.edu/software/pmvs/

Multi-view Stereo

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS

Manhattan-world Stereo[Furukawa et al., CVPR 2009]

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS

Manhattan-world Stereo[Furukawa et al., CVPR 2009]

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS

Manhattan-world Stereo[Furukawa et al., CVPR 2009]

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS

Manhattan-world Stereo[Furukawa et al., CVPR 2009]

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS

Manhattan-world Stereo[Furukawa et al., CVPR 2009]

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS MWS

Axis-aligned depth map merging(our contribution)

System pipeline

Images SFM MVS MWS Merging

Rendering: simple view-dependent texture mapping

Outline

• System pipeline (system contribution)• Algorithmic details (technical contribution) • Experimental results• Conclusion and future work

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Basic framework is similar to volumetric MRF [Vogiatzis 2005, Sinha 2007, Zach 2007, Hernández 2007]

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Basic framework is similar to volumetric MRF [Vogiatzis 2005, Sinha 2007, Zach 2007, Hernández 2007]

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Basic framework is similar to volumetric MRF [Vogiatzis 2005, Sinha 2007, Zach 2007, Hernández 2007]

Key Feature 1 - Penalty terms

Key Feature 1 - Penalty terms

Binary penalty

Binary encodes smoothness & dataUnary is often constant (inflation)

Key Feature 1 - Penalty terms

Binary penalty

Binary encodes smoothness & dataUnary is often constant (inflation)

Key Feature 1 - Penalty terms

Binary penalty

Binary encodes smoothness & dataUnary is often constant (inflation)

Key Feature 1 - Penalty terms

Binary is smoothnessUnary encodes data

Binary penalty

Binary encodes smoothness & dataUnary is often constant (inflation)

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Align voxel grid withthe dominant axes

• Data term (unary)

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Align voxel grid withthe dominant axes

• Data term (unary)• Smoothness (binary)

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Align voxel grid withthe dominant axes

• Data term (unary)• Smoothness (binary)

Axis-aligned Depth-map Merging

• Align voxel grid withthe dominant axes

• Data term (unary)• Smoothness (binary)• Graph-cuts

Outline

• System pipeline (system contribution)• Algorithmic details (technical contribution)• Experimental results• Conclusion and future work

Kitchen - 22 images1364 triangles

hall - 97 images3344 triangles

house - 148 images8196 triangles

gallery - 492 images8302 triangles

Demo

Conclusion & Future Work

• Conclusion– Fully automated 3D reconstruction/visualization

system for architectural scenes– Novel depth-map merging to produce piece-wise

planar axis-aligned model with sub-voxel accuracy• Future work– Relax Manhattan-world assumption– Larger scenes (e.g., a whole building)

Any Questions?

Images SFM MVS MWS Merging

KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and InteractionUsing a Moving Depth Camera

[0] KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera*, 1Microsoft Research

A) Depth Map Conversion

Reduce noise and calibrate with the inferred camera intrinsic matrix to get the point cloud position in camera coordinate.

[1] C.Tomasi, R. Manduchi, "Bilateral Filtering for gray and color images", Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision, pp 839-46, New Delhi, India, 1998.

B) Camera Tracking(ICP)

[2] Zhang, Zhengyou (1994). "Iterative point matching for registration of free-form curves and surfaces". International Journal of Computer Vision (Springer)

C) Volumetric Integration

[3] B. Curless and M. Levoy. A volumetric method for building complex models from range images. ACM Trans. Graph., 1996.

Signed distance field: divided the world into voxels, each one saves the nearest distance to a surface.

2D example

3D example

D) Ray Casting

Demonstration

Building Rome in a Day

Paper Summary

Outcome•A system that can reconstruct 3D geometry from large, unorganized collections of photographs

• Uses new distributed computer vision algorithms for image matching and 3D reconstruction

• Algorithms designed to maximize parallelism at each state of the pipeline• Algorithms designed to scale well with size of problem• Algorithms designed to scale well with amount of available computation.

Challenges

• Images collected from photo sharing websites• Images are unstructured

• Images taken in no specific order• no control over distributions of camera viewpoints

• Images are uncalibrated• Different photographers• Different cameras• Little knowledge of camera settings for each image

• Scale of project 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than used with prior methods

• Algorithms must be fast to complete reconstruction in one day

Applications•Government sector uses city models• Urban planning and visualization

•Academic disciplines use city models• History• Archeology• Geography

•Consumer mapping technology• Google Earth• GPS navigation systems• Online Map sites

Recover 3D Geometry•Given scene geometry and camera geometry, we can predict where the 2D projections of each point should be in each image. Compare these projections to the original measurements.• Scene geometry represented as 3D points• Camera geometry represented as 3D position and orientation for each camera

•Equations:

(x, y, z) = (x/z, y/z)

Correspondence Problem•Definition: Automatically estimate 2D correspondence between input images

•Detect most distinctive, repeatable features in each image

•Match features across image pairs by finding similar looking features using approximate nearest neighbors search• For each pair of images, insert the features of one image into a k-d tree• Use features from second image as queries.• For each query, if the nearest neighbor is sufficiently far away from the next nearest

neighbor, declare a match.

•Clean up matches • Rigid scenes have strong geometric constrains on the locations of matching features• 3x3 Fundamental Matrix, F, such that corresponding points xij, xik from images j and k

satisfy:

City Scale Matching•Goal: Find correspondence spanning entire collection

•Solve using graph estimation problem• “Match Graph”

• Graph vertices = images• Graph edge exists between two vertices iff they are looking at the same part of

the scene and have a sufficient number of feature matches

• Multiround scheme• In each round, propose a set of edges in the match graph

• Whole Image Similarity• Query Expansion

• Verify each edge through feature matching

City Scale Matching: Whole Image Similarity

•Used for first round edge proposal

•Metric to compute overall similarity of two images• Cluster features into visual words• Visual words weighted using Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency method• Apply document retrieval algorithms to match data sets

• Each photo represented as sparse histogram of visual words• Compare histograms by taking inner product

•For each image, determine k1 + k2 most similar images•Verify top k1 images •Result: sparsely connected match graph

•Goal: minimize connected components• For each image, consider next k2 images and verify pairs which straddle different

connected components

City Scale Matching: Query Expansion

•Result from first round: sparse match graph, insufficiently dense to produce good reconstruction

•Definition, Query Expansion: find all vertices within two steps of the query vertex

•If vertices i and k connected to j, propose i and k also connected•Verify edge (i, k)

City Scale Matching:Implementation

1. Pre-processing2. Verification3. Track Generation

•System runs on cluster of computers (“nodes”)•“Master node” makes job scheduling decisions

Implementation: Pre-processing•Images distributed to cluster nodes in chunks of fixed size•Node down-samples images to fixed size•Node extracts features

Implementation: Verification•Use whole image similarity for first two rounds•Use query expansion for remaining rounds

•Solve with greedy bin-packing algorithm• Bin = set of jobs sent to a node

• Drawback: requires multiple sweeps over remaining image pairs• Solution: consider only fixed sized subset of image pairs for

scheduling

Implementation: Track Generation•Definition: A group of features corresponding to a single 3D point

•Combine all pairwise matching information to generate consistent tracks across images

•Solved by finding connected components in a graph• Vertex = features in images• Edge = connect matching features

Recover camera poses•Find and reconstruct skeletal set, minimal subset of photographs capturing essential geometry of a scene

•Add remaining images to the scene by estimating each camera’s pose with respect to known 3D points matched to the image

Multiview Stereo•Estimate depths for every pixel in every image

•Merge resulting 3D points into a single model

•Scale exceeds MVS algorithms ability• Group photos into clusters that each reconstruct part of the scene

Results