A New Methodology for Evaluating Various Methods of 3D Reconstruction from Single Image

Consumer market is recently experiencing 3D display. To prepare the market for new era of 3D TV, the 3D display popularity can be increased by making ease of capturing or generating of stereo information. The results of recent research on 3D structure modeling from single images can be used to generate stereo images. We evaluate some of typical 3D reconstruction methods from single images in relation of using the results in 3D display. The evaluation is not only based on the experts' opinions and statistic test but also an objective methodology is introduced. Only planar surfaces, like as in any man made structure scenes, are used in the objective evaluation. The number of planes is varied in a controlled way. Three popular and classic methods are chosen for the evaluation with this new methodology. And the evaluation result is consistent with the statistical result of human inquiries