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Recovering Transparent Shape from Time-of-Flight Distortion

 
Kenichiro Tanaka1,2, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa2, Hiroyuki Kubo2, Yasuyuki Matsushita1, Yasushi Yagi1
1 Osaka University, 2 Nara Institute of Science and Technology

CVPR 2016 : [Paper, Open access (PDF)], [Supplementary (PDF)], [Poster (PDF)], IEEE Xplore, [bibtex]

Abstract

  This paper presents a method for recovering shape and normal of a transparent object from a single viewpoint using a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera. Our method is built upon the fact that the speed of light varies with the refractive index of the medium and therefore the depth measurement of a transparent object with a ToF camera may be distorted. We show that, from this ToF distortion, the refractive light path can be uniquely determined by estimating a single parameter. We estimate this parameter by introducing a surface normal consistency between the one determined by a light path candidate and the other computed from the corresponding shape. The proposed method is evaluated by both simulation and real-world experiments and shows faithful transparent shape recovery.

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Poster

Slide

I had a talk on MIRU 2016 (Japanese domestic conference). Below is a slide I used for that talk.