Pixelwise View Selection for Unstructured Multi-View Stereo

Johannes L. Schönberger, Enliang Zheng, Jan-Michael Frahm, Marc Pollefeys

Abstract: This work presents a Multi-View Stereo system for robust and efficient dense modeling from unstructured image collections. Our core contributions are the joint estimation of depth and normal information, pixelwise view selection using photometric and geometric priors, and a multi-view geometric consistency term for the simultaneous refinement and image-based depth and normal fusion. Experiments on benchmarks and large-scale Internet photo collections demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in terms of accuracy, completeness, and efficiency.