Automatic 3D Model Acquisition from Uncalibrated Images

ii To my parents, Lucy and Lorne, and my brother Robbie iii iv The recovery of shape from images has received much attention as a core research topic in Computer Vision, however, these algorithms often require specialist equipment, expert knowledge or large numbers of images to obtain good results. These act as a barrier to the adoption of these technologies by other fields where we wish to allow systems to process images from the ‘real world ’ without Computer Vision experts to operate them. The desire to implement a practical reconstruction system that is useful to and usable by the people who may benefit from these technologies motivates the contributions of this thesis. This work addresses all three of the stages required to take a sequence of images of an object and recover a 3D model in order to produce a system that maximises automa