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We present a real-time method for detecting deformable surfaces, with no need whatsoever for a priori pose knowledge.
Our method starts from a set of wide baseline point matches between an undeformed image of the object and the image in which it is to be detected. The matches are used not only to detect but also to compute a precise mapping from one to the other. The algorithm is robust to large deformations, lighting changes, motion blur, and occlusions. It runs at 10 frames per second on a 2.8 GHz PC.We demonstrate its applicability by using it to realistically modify the texture of a deforming surface and to handle complex illumination effects.
Combining deformable meshes with a well designed robust estimator is key to dealing with the large number of parameters involved in modeling deformable surfaces and rejecting erroneous matches for error rates of more than 90%, which is considerably more than what is required in practice.
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Pilet, J., Lepetit, V. & Fua, P. Fast Non-Rigid Surface Detection, Registration and Realistic Augmentation. Int J Comput Vis 76, 109–122 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-006-0017-9
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