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A special issue of Journal of Imaging (ISSN 2313-433X). This special issue belongs to the section "Visualization and Computer Graphics".

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Dr. Daniel Meneveaux

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XLIM Institute, UMR CNRS 7252, University of Poitiers, 86073 Poitiers, France
Interests: computer graphics; lighting simulation; reflectance models; image-based rendering
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Dr. Gianmarco Cherchi

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: computer graphics; geometry processing; surface modeling; volumetric modeling; polycubes

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Dear Colleagues,

Understanding image contents has been a tremendous source of research advances, with many different focuses, targeted applications, needs, or scientific starting points. A wide range of existing approaches nowadays are employed in the industry for many considerations, including, for instance, quality in engineering production, video-based security, or 3D modeling in gaming applications or movies. Yet, reconstructing a representation of a scene observed through a camera remains a challenging aspect in general, and the specific question of producing a (static or dynamic) geometric model has led to decades of research, and still corresponds to a very active scientific domain. Sensors are continuously evolving, bringing more and more accuracy, resolution, and new opportunities for reconstructing objects’ shape and/or detailed geometric variations.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the reconstruction of geometry from images, including, but not limited to, videos, multispectral images, or time of flight. We wish to encourage original contributions that focus on the power of imaging methods for recovering geometric representations of objects or parts of objects. Contributions may correspond to various approaches, which could include shape-from-X approaches, deep learning, photometric stereo, etc.

Dr. Daniel Meneveaux
Dr. Gianmarco Cherchi
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Keywords

Geometry from images and videos
Reconstruction from 3D images
Reconstruction from time of flight sensors
Reconstruction from multispectral images
Reconstruction from lightfield cameras
Shape from X (shading, silhouette, etc.)
Multiview reconstruction
Photometric stereo
Epipolar geometry
Structure from motion
Space carving and coloring
Differential geometry
Acquisition systems and calibration
Shape from template
Deep learning based reconstruction
Reconstruction of non rigid geometry
Medical imaging
Radar, satellites
Urban environments
Cultural heritage
Virtual and augmented reality
Gaming

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Editorial for the Special Issue on “Geometry Reconstruction from Images”

by Daniel Meneveaux and Gianmarco Cherchi

J. Imaging 2024, 10(2), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10020029 - 23 Jan 2024

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This special issue on geometry reconstruction from images has received much attention from the community, with 10 published papers [...] Full article

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3D Reconstruction of Fishes Using Coded Structured Light

by Christos Veinidis, Fotis Arnaoutoglou and Dimitrios Syvridis

J. Imaging 2023, 9(9), 189; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9090189 - 18 Sep 2023

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3D reconstruction of fishes provides the capability of extracting geometric measurements, which are valuable in the field of Aquaculture. In this paper, a novel method for 3D reconstruction of fishes using the Coded Structured Light technique is presented. In this framework, a binary image, called pattern, consisting of white geometric shapes, namely symbols, on a black background is projected onto the surface of a number of fishes, which belong to different species. A camera captures the resulting images, and the various symbols in these images are decoded to uniquely identify them on the pattern. For this purpose, a number of steps, such as the binarization of the images captured by the camera, symbol classification, and the correction of misclassifications, are realized. The proposed methodology for 3D reconstructions is adapted to the specific geometric and morphological characteristics of the considered fishes with fusiform body shape, something which is implemented for the first time. Using the centroids of the symbols as feature points, the symbol correspondences immediately result in point correspondences between the pattern and the images captured by the camera. These pairs of corresponding points are exploited for the final 3D reconstructions of the fishes. The extracted 3D reconstructions provide all the geometric information which is related to the real fishes. The experimentation demonstrates the high efficiency of the techniques adopted in each step of the proposed methodology. As a result, the final 3D reconstructions provide sufficiently accurate approximations of the real fishes. Full article

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Reconstructing Floorplans from Point Clouds Using GAN

by Tianxing Jin, Jiayan Zhuang, Jiangjian Xiao, Ningyuan Xu and Shihao Qin

J. Imaging 2023, 9(2), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9020039 - 8 Feb 2023

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This paper proposed a method for reconstructing floorplans from indoor point clouds. Unlike existing corner and line primitive detection algorithms, this method uses a generative adversarial network to learn the complex distribution of indoor layout graphics, and repairs incomplete room masks into more regular segmentation areas. Automatic learning of the structure information of layout graphics can reduce the dependence on geometric priors, and replacing complex optimization algorithms with Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can improve the efficiency of data processing. The proposed method can retain more shape information from the original data and improve the accuracy of the overall structure details. On this basis, the method further used an edge optimization algorithm to eliminate pixel-level edge artifacts that neural networks cannot perceive. Finally, combined with the constraint information of the overall layout, the method can generate compact floorplans with rich semantic information. Experimental results indicated that the algorithm has robustness and accuracy in complex 3D indoor datasets; its performance is competitive with those of existing methods. Full article

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Perception and Quantization Model for Periodic Contour Modifications

by Dmitri Presnov and Andreas Kolb

J. Imaging 2022, 8(11), 311; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8110311 - 21 Nov 2022

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Periodic, wave-like modifications of 2D shape contours are often applied to convey quantitative data via images. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no in-depth investigation of the perceptual uniformity and legibility of these kind of approaches. In this paper, we design and perform a user study to evaluate the perception of periodic contour modifications related to their geometry and colour. Based on the study results, we statistically derive a perceptual model, which demonstrates a mainly linear stimulus-to-perception relationship for geometric and colour amplitude and a close-to-quadratic relationship for the respective frequencies, with a rather negligible dependency on the waveform. Furthermore, analyzing the distribution of perceived magnitudes and the overlapping of the respective 50% confidence intervals, we extract distinguishable, visually equidistant quantization levels for each contour-related visual variable. Moreover, we give first insights into the perceptual dependency between amplitude and frequency, and propose a scheme for transferring our model to glyphs with different size, which preserves the distinguishability and the visual equidistance. This work is seen as a first step towards a comprehensive understanding of the perception of periodic contour modifications in image-based visualizations. Full article

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Experimental Study of Radial Distortion Compensation for Camera Submerged Underwater Using Open SaltWaterDistortion Data Set

by Daria Senshina, Dmitry Polevoy, Egor Ershov and Irina Kunina

J. Imaging 2022, 8(10), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8100289 - 19 Oct 2022

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This paper describes a new open data set, consisting of images of a chessboard collected underwater with different refractive indices, which allows for investigation of the quality of different radial distortion correction methods. The refractive index is regulated by the degree of salinity [...] Read more.

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nodes). Two different mobile phone cameras were used for the shooting: telephoto and wide-angle. With the help of the collected data set, the practical applicability of the formula for correction of the radial distortion that occurs when the camera is submerged underwater was investigated. Our experiments show that the radial distortion correction formula makes it possible to correct images with high precision, comparable to the precision of classical calibration algorithms. We also show that this correction method is resistant to small inaccuracies in the indication of the refractive index of water. The data set, as well as the accompanying code, are publicly available. Full article

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Line Clipping in 2D: Overview, Techniques and Algorithms

by Dimitrios Matthes and Vasileios Drakopoulos

J. Imaging 2022, 8(10), 286; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8100286 - 17 Oct 2022

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Clipping, as a fundamental process in computer graphics, displays only the part of a scene which is needed to be displayed and rejects all others. In two dimensions, the clipping process can be applied to a variety of geometric primitives such as points, lines, polygons or curves. A line-clipping algorithm processes each line in a scene through a series of tests and intersection calculations to determine whether the entire line or any part of it is to be saved. It also calculates the intersection position of a line with the window edges so its major goal is to minimize these calculations. This article surveys important techniques and algorithms for line-clipping in 2D but it also includes some of the latest research made by the authors. The survey criteria include evaluation of all line-clipping algorithms against a rectangular window, line clipping versus polygon clipping, and our line clipping against a convex polygon, as well as all line-clipping algorithms against a convex polygon algorithm. Full article

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A Very Fast Image Stitching Algorithm for PET Bottle Caps

by Xiao Zhu, Zixiao Liu, Xin Zhang, Tingting Sui and Ming Li

J. Imaging 2022, 8(10), 275; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8100275 - 7 Oct 2022

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In the beverage, food and drug industry, more and more machine vision systems are being used for the defect detection of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottle caps. In this paper, in order to address the result of cylindrical distortions that influence the subsequent defect detection in the imaging process, a very fast image stitching algorithm is proposed to generate a panorama planar image of the surface of PET bottle caps. Firstly, the three-dimensional model of the bottle cap is established. Secondly, the relative poses among the four cameras and the bottle cap in the three-dimensional space are calculated to obtain the mapping relationship between three-dimensional points on the side surface of the bottle cap and image pixels taken by the camera. Finally, the side images of the bottle cap are unfolded and stitched to generate a planar image. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm unfolds the side images of the bottle cap correctly and very fast. The average unfolding and stitching time for 1.6-megapixel color caps image can reach almost 123.6 ms. Full article

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Detecting Cocircular Subsets of a Spherical Set of Points

by Basel Ibrahim and Nahum Kiryati

J. Imaging 2022, 8(7), 184; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8070184 - 5 Jul 2022

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Given a spherical set of points, we consider the detection of cocircular subsets of the data. We distinguish great circles from small circles, and develop algorithms for detecting cocircularities of both types. The suggested approach is an extension of the Hough transform. We address the unique parameter-space quantization issues arising due to the spherical geometry, present quantization schemes, and evaluate the quantization-induced errors. We demonstrate the proposed algorithms by detecting cocircular cities and airports on Earth’s spherical surface. These results facilitate the detection of great and small circles in spherical images. Full article

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A Hybrid Method for 3D Reconstruction of MR Images

by Loubna Lechelek, Sebastien Horna, Rita Zrour, Mathieu Naudin and Carole Guillevin

J. Imaging 2022, 8(4), 103; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8040103 - 7 Apr 2022

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Three-dimensional surface reconstruction is a well-known task in medical imaging. In procedures for intervention or radiation treatment planning, the generated models should be accurate and reflect the natural appearance. Traditional methods for this task, such as Marching Cubes, use smoothing post processing to reduce staircase artifacts from mesh generation and exhibit the natural look. However, smoothing algorithms often reduce the quality and degrade the accuracy. Other methods, such as MPU implicits, based on adaptive implicit functions, inherently produce smooth 3D models. However, the integration in the implicit functions of both smoothness and accuracy of the shape approximation may impact the precision of the reconstruction. Having these limitations in mind, we propose a hybrid method for 3D reconstruction of MR images. This method is based on a parallel Marching Cubes algorithm called Flying Edges (FE) and Multi-level Partition of Unity (MPU) implicits. We aim to combine the robustness of the Marching Cubes algorithm with the smooth implicit curve tracking enabled by the use of implicit models in order to provide higher geometry precision. Towards this end, the regions that closely fit to the segmentation data, and thus regions that are not impacted by reconstruction issues, are first extracted from both methods. These regions are then merged and used to reconstruct the final model. Experimental studies were performed on a number of MRI datasets, providing images and error statistics generated from our results. The results obtained show that our method reduces the geometric errors of the reconstructed surfaces when compared to the MPU and FE approaches, producing a more accurate 3D reconstruction. Full article

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Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from a Single RGB Image Using Deep Learning: A Review

by Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Alain Pagani, Marcus Liwicki, Didier Stricker and Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

J. Imaging 2022, 8(9), 225; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8090225 - 23 Aug 2022

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Performing 3D reconstruction from a single 2D input is a challenging problem that is trending in literature. Until recently, it was an ill-posed optimization problem, but with the advent of learning-based methods, the performance of 3D reconstruction has also significantly improved. Infinitely many different 3D objects can be projected onto the same 2D plane, which makes the reconstruction task very difficult. It is even more difficult for objects with complex deformations or no textures. This paper serves as a review of recent literature on 3D reconstruction from a single view, with a focus on deep learning methods from 2018 to 2021. Due to the lack of standard datasets or 3D shape representation methods, it is hard to compare all reviewed methods directly. However, this paper reviews different approaches for reconstructing 3D shapes as depth maps, surface normals, point clouds, and meshes; along with various loss functions and metrics used to train and evaluate these methods. Full article

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Guidelines for Accurate Multi-Temporal Model Registration of 3D Scanned Objects

by Kate J. Benfield, Dylan E. Burruel and Trevor J. Lujan

J. Imaging 2023, 9(2), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging9020043 - 14 Feb 2023

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Changes in object morphology can be quantified using 3D optical scanning to generate 3D models of an object at different time points. This process requires registration techniques that align target and reference 3D models using mapping functions based on common object features that are unaltered over time. The goal of this study was to determine guidelines when selecting these localized features to ensure robust and accurate 3D model registration. For this study, an object of interest (tibia bone replica) was 3D scanned at multiple time points, and the acquired 3D models were aligned using a simple cubic registration block attached to the object. The size of the registration block and the number of planar block surfaces selected to calculate the mapping functions used for 3D model registration were varied. Registration error was then calculated as the average linear surface variation between the target and reference tibial plateau surfaces. We obtained very low target registration errors when selecting block features with an area equivalent to at least 4% of the scanning field of view. Additionally, we found that at least two orthogonal surfaces should be selected to minimize registration error. Therefore, when registering 3D models to measure multi-temporal morphological change (e.g., mechanical wear), we recommend selecting multiplanar features that account for at least 4% of the scanning field of view. For the first time, this study has provided guidelines for selecting localized object features that can provide accurate 3D model registration for 3D scanned objects. Full article

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