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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2006
Yousef Wasef Nijim, Roswell, GA (US);
Izzat Hekmat Izzat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yousef Wasef Nijim, Roswell, GA (US);
Izzat Hekmat Izzat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A system and method for three-dimensional (3D) acquisition and modeling of a scene using two-dimensional (2D) images are provided. The system and method provides for acquiring first and second images of a scene, applying a smoothing function to the first image to make feature points of objects, e.g., corners and edges of the objects, in the scene more visible, applying at least two feature detection functions to the first image to detect feature points of objects in the first image, combining outputs of the at least two feature detection functions to select object feature points to be tracked, applying a smoothing function to the second image, applying a tracking function on the second image to track the selected object feature points, and reconstructing a three-dimensional model of the scene from an output of the tracking function.