Whang bo Taeg Keun

The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 4, No. 11, pp. 2840-2848, Nov. 1997
10.3745/KIPSTE.1997.4.11.2840,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Recognition of 3D objects using computer vision is complicated by the fact geometric features vary with view orientation. An important factor in designing recognition algorithms in such situations is understanding the variation of certain critical features. The features selected in this paper are the angles between landmarks in a scene. In a class of polyhedral objects the angles at certain vertices may form a distinct and characteristic alignment of faces. For many other classes of objects it may be possible to identify distinctive spactial arrangements of some readily identifiable landmarks. In this paper given an isotropic view orientation and an orthographic projection the two dimensional joint density function of two angles in a scene is derived. Also the joint density of all defining angles of a polygon in an image is derived. The analytic expressions for the densities are useful in determining statistical decision rules to recognize surfaces and objects. Experiments to evaluate the usefulness of the propesed methods are reported. Results indicate that the method is useful and powerful.

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