Recovering the Spatial Layout of Cluttered Rooms

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering the spatial layout of indoor scenes from monocular images. The presence of clutter is a major problem for existing singleview 3D reconstruction algorithms, most of which rely on finding the ground-wall boundary. In most rooms, this boundary is partially or entirely occluded. We gain robustness to clutter by modeling the global room space with a parameteric 3D “box” and by iteratively localizing clutter and refitting the box. To fit the box, we introduce a structured learning algorithm that chooses the set of parameters to minimize error, based on global perspective cues. On a dataset of 308 images, we demonstrate the ability of our algorithm to recover spatial layout in cluttered rooms and show several examples of estimated free space.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICCV
• Authors: Varsha Hedau, Derek Hoiem, David Forsyth
• Keywords: Cluttered Rooms, Computer Vision, ICCV 2009