Deformable Tracking of Textured Curvilinear Objects

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  • Nicolas Padoy
  • Gregory D. Hager
چکیده

Threads and wires are deformable 3-dimensional (3D) and curvilinear objects which are commonly manipulated by humans in various medical and manufacturing tasks. Several applications, including computerassisted evaluation, augmented reality guidance, and autonomous robotic manipulation [2, 3] would benefit from the real-time estimation of the 3D shapes of these deformable objects from images. This estimation is however challenging due to multiple factors: 1) little information is available within an image to visually detect and distinguish a curvilinear object due to its thin and usually uniform appearance; 2) different 3D shapes may lead to the same visual perception, even in a stereo setting in case portions of the objects lie in an epipolar plane; and 3) the motions and deformations can be large, depending on the stiffness of the object. Additionally, a tracking approach that can consistently track specific points along the object defined by their arclength, such as the extremities or midpoint, would be particularly useful in the aforementioned applications. To deal with visual ambiguities such as drift along the curve, we propose to texture the object with a coarse pattern of alternating colors and formulate the shape estimation as a deformable 1D template tracking problem. Tracking is expressed as an energy minimization over a set of control pointsQ parameterizing a 3D NURBS C3D modeling the object:

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تاریخ انتشار 2012