Multi-View Stereo: A
Tutorial
Multi-View Stereo: A
Tutorial
Yasutaka Furukawa
Washington University in St. Louis
furukawa@wustl.edu
Carlos Hernández
Google Inc.
carloshernandez@google.com
Boston — Delft
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Volume 9, Issue 1-2, 2013
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Brian Curless
University of Washington
United States
William T. Freeman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Editors
Luc Van Gool
KU Leuven, Belgium
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Marc Alexa
TU Berlin
Ronen Basri
Weizmann Institute
Peter Belhumeur
Columbia University
Andrew Blake
Microsoft Research
Chris Bregler
New York University
Joachim Buhmann
ETH Zurich
Michael Cohen
Microsoft Research
Paul Debevec
USC ICT
Julie Dorsey
Yale University
Fredo Durand
MIT
Olivier Faugeras
INRIA
Mike Gleicher
University of Wisconsin
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ANU
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Adobe Research, USA
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Microsoft Research
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Georgia Tech
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UBC
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UC Berkeley
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Cornell University
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Columbia University
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UC Berkeley
Tomas Pajdla
Czech TU
Pietro Perona
Caltech
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ETH Zurich
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Ecole Normale Supérieure
Long Quan
HKUST
Cordelia Schmid
INRIA
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University of Washington
Amnon Shashua
Hebrew University
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University of Utah
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UCLA
Richard Szeliski
Microsoft Research
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Saarland University
Song Chun Zhu
UCLA
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University of Oxford
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• Rendering
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• Animation
• Sensors and sensing
• Image restoration and
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• Segmentation and grouping
• Feature detection and selection
• Color processing
• Texture analysis and synthesis
• Illumination and reflectance
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• Motion estimation and
registration
• Stereo matching and
reconstruction
• 3D reconstruction and
image-based modeling
• Learning and statistical
methods
• Appearance-based matching
• Object and scene recognition
• Face detection and recognition
• Activity and gesture
recognition
• Image and video retrieval
• Video analysis and event
recognition
• Medical image analysis
• Robot localization and
• Shape representation
• Tracking
• Calibration
• Structure from motion
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Foundations and Trends R in
Computer Graphics and Vision
Vol. 9, No. 1-2 (2013) 1–148
c 2015 Y. Furukawa and C. Hernández
DOI: 10.1561/0600000052
Multi-View Stereo: A Tutorial
Yasutaka Furukawa
Washington University in St. Louis
furukawa@wustl.edu
Carlos Hernández
Google Inc.
carloshernandez@google.com