Deep Learning for Vanishing Point Detection Using an Inverse Gnomonic Projection
This addresses the problem of robust vanishing point detection for computer vision applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing CNN methods with a novel data representation.
The paper tackles vanishing point detection from uncalibrated monocular images without scene assumptions, achieving competitive performance on three benchmark datasets for horizon estimation.
We present a novel approach for vanishing point detection from uncalibrated monocular images. In contrast to state-of-the-art, we make no a priori assumptions about the observed scene. Our method is based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) which does not use natural images, but a Gaussian sphere representation arising from an inverse gnomonic projection of lines detected in an image. This allows us to rely on synthetic data for training, eliminating the need for labelled images. Our method achieves competitive performance on three horizon estimation benchmark datasets. We further highlight some additional use cases for which our vanishing point detection algorithm can be used.