Vanishing Point Detection without Any A Priori Information

This work was partially funded by the French Space Agency (CNES) and Cognitech Inc. We would like to specially thank JeanMichel Morel for his encouragement, support, ideas, and for introducing us to Gestalt-based image analysis. A. Almansa would also like to thank Lenny Rudin and Pascal Monasse for useful discussions, references, and motivation to address this problem, as well as for adapting and optimizing this method for Cognitech’s video processing software. Finally we gratefully acknowledge the very pertinent observations of the reviewers which greatly contributed to improve the quality of this paper.