SHAPE FROM INCONSISTENT SILHOUETTE FOR FREE VIEWPOINT VIDEO

In this paper we present an efficient image-based rendering algorithm that obtains novel images from a set of views of the scene of interest. The approach described uses silhouette image data to compute the Visual Hull, the largest volume that is compatible with the silhouettes that delimit the objects of interest. Since the Visual Hull is not explicitly computed, this approach does not suffer from the quantization artifacts of volumetric approaches. In contrast to previous works, we ex-plore how detection errors in the silhouettes affect the novel rendered view and propose a method to detect errors in the original silhouettes based on the consistency principle that states that the projection of the Visual Hull should exactly correspond with original silhouettes. Index Terms — Free viewpoint video, shape from silhou-ette, inconsistency, image-based rendering. 1