Prior-Based Facade Rectification for AR in Urban Environment

We present a method for automatic facade rectification and detection in the Manhattan world scenario. A Bayesian inference approach is proposed to recover the Manhattan directions in camera coordinate system, based on a prior we derived from the analysis of urban datasets. In addition, a SVM-based procedure is used to identify right-angle corners in the rectified images. These corners are clustered in facade regions using a greedy rectangular min-cut technique. Experiments on a standard dataset show that our algorithm performs better or as well as state-of-the-art techniques while being much faster.