A guided tour through multiview relations

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to give the non-specialist reader a comprehensible and intuitive introduction to multiview relations. It focusses on the geometric interpretation of the different image relationships, but also presents a concise mathematical formalism which allows to derive the algebraic expressions explicitly in an elementary and uniform manner. Special attention has been paid both to these multiview constraints as geometric incidence relations between image features (i.e. points and lines) in different views as well as to their use for image transfer. Moreover, an attempt has been made to provide suficient pointers to the literature where the interested reader may find additional information on particular subjects as well as alternative viewpoints and mathematical formalisms.