Henrik Andreasson, Rudolph Triebel and Achim J. Lilienthal
Non-iterative Vision-based Interpolation of 3D Laser Scans
Abstract:
3D range sensors, particularly 3D laser range scanners, enjoy a rising
popularity and are used nowadays for many different applications. The resolution 3D
range sensors provide in the image plane is typically much lower than the resolution
of a modern colour camera. In this chapter we focus on methods to derive a high-resolution
depth image from a low-resolution 3D range sensor and a colour image.
The main idea is to use colour similarity as an indication of depth similarity, based
on the observation that depth discontinuities in the scene often correspond to colour
or brightness changes in the camera image. We present five interpolation methods
and compare them with an independently proposed method based on Markov random
fields. The proposed algorithms are non-iterative and include a parameter-free
vision-based interpolation method. In contrast to previous work, we present ground
truth evaluation with real world data and analyse both indoor and outdoor data.
Bibtex:
@INBOOK{Andreasson_etal:Springer:2007,
AUTHOR = {Andreasson, Henrik and Triebel, Rudolph and Lilienthal, Achim~J.},
TITLE = {Non-iterative Vision-based Interpolation of 3D Laser Scans},
CHAPTER = {Autonomous Robots and Agents},
SERIES = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
PUBLISHER = {Springer, Germany}
EDITOR = {Mukhopadhyay, Subhas Chandra and Gupta, Gourab Sen}
YEAR = {2007},
VOLUME = {76},
PAGES = {83--90},
MONTH = {August 14},
ISBN = {978-3-540-73423-9}
ISSN = {1860-949X (Print) 1860-9503 (Online)}
}