Multiperspective Imaging

Steven M. Seitz and Jiwon Kim
(seitz|jwkim@cs.washington.edu)

Introduction

Although human vision has evolved with perspective optics, perspective images provide a limited field of view, allowing us to see only one side of an object at once. Multiperspective images, on the other hand, capture more than one point of view in a single image. They not only enable a richer and more complete visualization, but they are also well-suited for computer vision algorithms such as stereo reconstruction and motion analysis.

Below we demonstrate some results of our research in multiperspective imaging. For more information, please refer to our article entitled Multiperspective Imaging, to appear in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2003 November/December edition.

Images and Videos

	Image (click to enlarge)	Video
Residential Street	Stereo pushbroom *	Input Video Pushbroom Video
Human Head	Stereo cyclograph	Input Video Cyclograph Video
Toy Horse	Stereo cyclograph	Input Video Cyclograph Video
Supermarket		Input Video
Train	full resolution, beginning only 10/86 resolution, entire train 10/86 x, full resolution y, entire train	No video available

* Free 3D red-blue glasses can be ordered from Rainbow Symphony, Inc.

Publications and Talks

Papers

• Steven M. Seitz, The Space of All Stereo Images, ICCV 2001
• Steven M. Seitz and Jiwon Kim, The Space of All Stereo Images, IJCV 2002, Marr Prize Special Issue (project web page)
• Steven M. Seitz and Jiwon Kim, Multiperspective Imaging, IEEE CG&A 2003

Presentation slides

• Steven M. Seitz, 3D Photography: Beyond Perspective (ppt | html)

Related Links

• Video Cube by Microsoft Research Graphics Group
• Shmuel Peleg at Hebrew University
• Tomas Pajdla at Czech Technical University, Prague
• Heung-Yeung Shum and Li-Wei He, Rendering with Concentric Mosaics, SIGGRAPH '99.
• Daniel Wood, et al. Multiperspective Panoramas for Cel Animation, SIGGRAPH '97
• Paul Rademacher and Gary Bishop, Multiple-Center-of-Projection Images, SIGGRAPH '98
• Maneesh Agrawala, et al. Artistic Multiprojection Rendering, Eurographics Rendering Workshop 2000
• Andrew Glassner, Cubism and Cameras: Free-form Optics for Computer Graphics, Microsoft Research Technical Report, 2000

Acknowledgements