Distinguishing Refracted Features using Light Field Cameras with Application to Structure from Motion
Robots must reliably interact with refractive objects in many applications; however, refractive objects can cause many robotic vision algorithms to become unreliable or even fail, particularly feature-based matching applications, such as structure-from-motion. We propose a method to distinguish between refracted and Lambertian image features using a light field camera. Specifically, we propose to use textural cross-correlation to characterise apparent feature motion in a single light field, and compare this motion to its Lambertian equivalent based on 4D light field geometry. Our refracted feature distinguisher has a 34.3% higher rate of detection compared to state-of-the-art for light fields captured with large baselines relative to the refractive object. Our method also applies to light field cameras with much smaller baselines than previously considered, yielding up to 2 times better detection for 2D-refractive objects, such as a sphere, and up to 8 times better for 1D-refractive objects, such as a cylinder. For structure from motion, we demonstrate that rejecting refracted features using our distinguisher yields up to 42.4% lower reprojection error, and lower failure rate when the robot is approaching refractive objects. Our method lead to more robust robot vision in the presence of refractive objects.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Refractive Light-Field Features for Curved Transparent Objects in Structure from Motion
Curved refractive objects are common in the human environment, and have a complex visual appearance that can cause robotic vision algorithms to fail. Light-field cameras allow us to address this challenge by capturing th…
Transparent objectsNeReF: Neural Refractive Field for Fluid Surface Reconstruction and Implicit Representation
Existing neural reconstruction schemes such as Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) are largely focused on modeling opaque objects. We present a novel neural refractive field(NeReF) to recover wavefront of transparent fluids by …
global-optimizationNeRFSurface ReconstructionNeural Radiance Fields for Transparent Object Using Visual Hull
Unlike opaque object, novel view synthesis of transparent object is a challenging task, because transparent object refracts light of background causing visual distortions on the transparent object surface along the viewp…
NeRFNovel View SynthesisObjectTransparent objectsThrough the Curved Cover: Synthesizing Cover Aberrated Scenes with Refractive Field
Recent extended reality headsets and field robots have adopted covers to protect the front-facing cameras from environmental hazards and falls. The surface irregularities on the cover can lead to optical aberrations like…
NeRFNovel View SynthesisNeRFrac: Neural Radiance Fields through Refractive Surface
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is a popular neural expression for novel view synthesis. By querying spatial points and view directions, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) can be trained to output the volume density and rad…
NeRFNovel View Synthesis