Determining Perspective Structures Using Hierarchical Hough Transform

Long Quan (1) , Roger Mohr (2, 3)

1 CRIN - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy
2 MOVI - Modeling, localization, recognition and interpretation in computer vision
3 LIFIA - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm determining perspective structures such as vanishing points and horizon lines for indoor scenes. The algorithm is implemented as a hierarchical Hough transform on the pyramidal sphere.

Mots clés: Perspective image; vanishing point; horizon line; Hough transform; monocular vision

Domaines: Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Long Quan, Roger Mohr. Determining Perspective Structures Using Hierarchical Hough Transform. Pattern Recognition Letters, 1989, 9 (4), pp.279--286. ⟨10.1016/0167-8655(89)90006-8⟩. ⟨inria-00548470⟩