Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
12-31-1990
Degree Name
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Chung H. Lu
Second Advisor
Yun Q. Shi
Third Advisor
Nirwan Ansari
Abstract
A new approach to recovering surface structure from a pair of stereo images is proposed in this thesis. The approach is based on an extension of the concept of optical flow to a spatial sequence of images. z.e., the unified optical field (DOFF). A direct method in spatial domain is developed which is able to recover surface structure that can be characterized by an Nth order polynomial equation. The order N of the surface can be one. a planar surface. or two, a cylindrical or spherical surface. for example. or any number higher than two. This is a big improvement comparing to the old method which is restricted only to a planar surface. Simulation result is presented to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed approach. Numerical consideration and suggestions for future research directions are briefly discussed.
Recommended Citation
Ying, Zhu, "Recovering surface structure using direct method" (1990). Theses. 2692.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2692
