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We present a scheme for reliable and accurate surface reconstruction from stereoscopic images containing only fine texture and no stable high-level features. Partial shape information is used to improve surface computation: first by fitting an approximate, global, parametric model, and then by refining this model via local correspondence processes. This scheme eliminates the window size selection problem in existing area-based stereo correspondence schemes. These ideas are integrated in a practical vision system that is being used by environmental scientists to study wind erosion of bulk material such as coal ore being transported in open rail cars.
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Received: 14 August 1995 / Accepted: 27 May 1997
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Zhao, W., Nandhakumar, N. & Smith, P. Model-based interpretation of stereo imagery of textured surfaces. Machine Vision and Applications 10, 201–213 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001380050072
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