From Photohulls to Photoflux Optimization
Yuri Boykov, Victor Lempitsky · 2006
Our work was inspired by recent advances in image segmentation where fluxbased functionals significantly improved alignment of object boundaries. We propose a novel photoflux functional for multi-view 3D reconstruction that is closely related to properties of photohulls. Our photohull prior can be combined with regularization. Thus, this work unifies two major groups of multiview stereo techniques: “space carving ” and “deformable models”. Our approach combines benefits of both groups and allows to recover fine shape details without oversmoothing while robustly handling noise. Photoflux provides data-driven ballooning force that helps to segment thin structures or holes. Photoflux maximizing shapes can be also seen as regularized Laplacian zero-crossings [3]. We discuss several versions of photoflux functional based on global, local, or non-deterministic visibility models. Some forms of photoflux can be easily added into standard regularization techniques. For other forms we propose new optimization methods. 1