3-D polyhedral face computation from two perspective views with the aid of a calibration plate

The 3-D reconstruction of visible polyhedral faces from a pair of general perspective views with the aid of a calibration plate is addressed. A polyhedron is placed on a planar calibration plate and two side views of both the polyhedron and the calibration plate are taken. Through proper arrangements we may assume that in the two views a number of polyhedral edges lying on the calibration plate and the whole calibration plate boundary are visible. We present an online camera calibration technique with the aid of the calibration plate and a two-stage process to find the vertex/edge correspondences without encountering the ambiguity problem of the conventional epipolar line technique. We then give a closed form solution to the 3-D polyhedral vertices visible in both images. We also describe other advantages of using our method for the 3-D polyhedron reconstruction. Experimental results show that the obtained 3-D polyhedral vertex coordinates are rather accurate.