Global surface reconstruction by purposive control of observer motion

摘要

What viewpoint-control strategies are important for performing global visual exploration tasks such as searching for specific surface markings, building a global model of an arbitrary object, or recognizing an object? In this paper we consider the task of purposefully controlling the motion of an active, monocular observer in order to recover a global description of a smooth, arbitrarily-shaped object. We formulate global surface reconstruction as the task of controlling the motion of the observer so that the visible rim slides over the maximal, connected, reconstructible surface regions intersecting the visible rim at the initial viewpoint. We show that these regions are bounded by a subset of the visual event curves defined on the surface.