ATIP: A Tool for 3D Navigation inside a Single Image with Automatic Camera Calibration

Abstract

Automatic Tour Into the Picture (ATIP) is an extension of the Tour Into the Picture method [HAA97] that allows an approximative but visually convincing 3D walk-through inside a single image by rendering a box textured using the input image data. The original algorithm requires a long and tedious user interaction to determine the box dimensions and the perspective parameters, and imposes several constraints on the input image orientation. The goal of this paper is to present a framework providing fully automatic and fast camera calibration for any view orientation without using a calibration target. Our method reduces the user interaction, hence only a couple of seconds are required between the input image loading and the final walk-through.