HIGH RESOLUTION POINT CLOUD GENERATION FROM KINECT AND HD CAMERAS USING GRAPH CUT

Suvam Patra, Brojeshwar Bhowmick, Subhashis Banerjee, Prem Kalra

2012

Abstract

This paper describes a methodology for obtaining a high resolution dense point cloud using Kinect (Smisek et al., 2011) and HD cameras. Kinect produces a VGA resolution photograph and a noisy point cloud. But high resolution images of the same scene can easily be obtained using additional HD cameras. We combine the information to generate a high resolution dense point cloud. First, we do a joint calibration of Kinect and the HD cameras using traditional epipolar geometry (Hartley and Zisserman, 2004). Then we use the sparse point cloud obtained from Kinect and the high resolution information from the HD cameras to produce a dense point cloud in a registered frame using graph cut optimization. Experimental results show that this approach can significantly enhance the resolution of the Kinect point cloud.

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Patra S., Bhowmick B., Banerjee S. and Kalra P. (2012). HIGH RESOLUTION POINT CLOUD GENERATION FROM KINECT AND HD CAMERAS USING GRAPH CUT . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-04-4, pages 311-316. DOI: 10.5220/0003863003110316


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp12,
author={Suvam Patra and Brojeshwar Bhowmick and Subhashis Banerjee and Prem Kalra},
title={HIGH RESOLUTION POINT CLOUD GENERATION FROM KINECT AND HD CAMERAS USING GRAPH CUT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={311-316},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003863003110316},
isbn={978-989-8565-04-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - HIGH RESOLUTION POINT CLOUD GENERATION FROM KINECT AND HD CAMERAS USING GRAPH CUT
SN - 978-989-8565-04-4
AU - Patra S.
AU - Bhowmick B.
AU - Banerjee S.
AU - Kalra P.
PY - 2012
SP - 311
EP - 316
DO - 10.5220/0003863003110316