IEICE Trans - Integration of Multiple Cues in Shape from Texture

Integration of Multiple Cues in Shape from Texture

Hiroyuki UMEMURA  Toshio INUI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E82-D   No.8   pp.1228-1236
Publication Date: 1999/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Medical Electronics and Medical Information
Keyword:
human vision,  texture,  3-D shape,  integration of 3-D cues,

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Summary:
Texture has been investigated as a cue for reconstructing 3-D structure. There are various textures in a natural scene. In this paper, the regularity of alignment of texture elements was manipulated to investigate its effect on human perception. The results show that the regularity affects human perception when only the texel density gradient is given as cue or the density cue is inconsistent with the compression cue. We introduce a model based on a MAP estimation to account for the result from a viewpoint of an integration of 3-D cues. The model simultaneously estimates texture properties and 3-D surface orientation by using prior knowledge about texture and 3-D surface. The performance of the model accounts for the experimental result well.