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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2009
Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Redmond, WA (US);
Drew Edward Steedly, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard Stephen Szeliski, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Redmond, WA (US);
Drew Edward Steedly, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard Stephen Szeliski, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for reconstruction a three-dimensional scene from a collection of two-dimensional images are provided. A computerized reconstruction system executes computer vision algorithms on the collection of two-dimensional images to identify candidate planes that are used to model visual characteristics of the environment depicted in the two-dimensional images. The computer vision algorithms may minimize an energy function that represents the relationships and similarities among features of the two-dimensional images to assign pixels of the two dimensional images to planes in the three dimensional scene. The three-dimensional scene is navigable and depicts viewpoint transitions between multiple two-dimensional images.