Detecting Reflectional Symmetries in 3D Data Through Symmetrical Fitting

Aleksandrs Ecins, Cornelia Fermuller, Yiannis Aloimonos; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017, pp. 1779-1783

Abstract


Symmetry is ubiquitous in both natural and man-made environments. It reveals redundancies in the structure of the world around us and thus can be used in a variety of visual processing tasks. This paper presents a simple and robust approach to detecting symmetric objects and extract- ing their symmetries from three-dimensional data. Given a 3D mesh of an object, a set of candidate symmetries are proposed first and are then refined, so that they reflect the complete mesh onto itself. We show how our method can be used to detect symmetric objects in scenes consisting of syn- thetic 3D models, as well as 3D scans of real environments.

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@InProceedings{Ecins_2017_ICCV,
author = {Ecins, Aleksandrs and Fermuller, Cornelia and Aloimonos, Yiannis},
title = {Detecting Reflectional Symmetries in 3D Data Through Symmetrical Fitting},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {Oct},
year = {2017}
}