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Vanishing Point Detection by Clustering on the Normalized Unit Sphere
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 65 - Number 10 |
| Year of Publication: 2013 |
| Authors: Qiang He, Chee-hung Henry Chu |
10.5120/10961-5927
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Qiang He, Chee-hung Henry Chu . Vanishing Point Detection by Clustering on the Normalized Unit Sphere. International Journal of Computer Applications. 65, 10 ( March 2013), 22-28. DOI=10.5120/10961-5927
Abstract
In this paper, we give a new vanishing point detection algorithm, called the normalized unit sphere. By normalizing homogeneous coordinates in the original image space, we transform image points onto a normalized unit sphere. Further, we transform straight lines in image space into circles on normalized unit sphere. As a result, the vanishing point detection is implemented by searching the intersections of circles on the normalized unit sphere. This algorithm not only bounds the search space but treats the finite vanishing points and the vanishing points at infinity with the same way. The experimental results on synthetic and real data show good performance of this algorithm.
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