The process of recovering the three-dimensional structure of an object by the analysis of subsequent two-dimensional images of the object in motion. Although this term most commonly refers to the recovery of the structure of a rigid object (i.e., the distances between all points on the object remain constant), it still applies to piecewise rigid objects such as the human body where only some subsets of points remain rigid.
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(2009). Structure-from-Motion. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_553
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