It is shown how relative 3-D reconstruction for point correspondence of multiple images from uncalibrated cameras can be achieved through reference points. The original contributions with respect to other related works in the field are a direct global method for relative 3-D reconstruction and a geometrical method to select a correct set of reference points among all image points. Experimental results from both simulated and real image sequences are presented.>

It is possible to recover the three-dimensional structure of a scene using images taken with uncalibrated cameras and pixel correspondences betweeen these images. But such reconstruction can only be performed up to a projective transformation of the 3-D space. Therefore, constraints have to be put on the reconstructed data to get the reconstruction in the Euclidean space. Such constraints arise from knowledge of the scene, such as the location of points, geometrical constraints on lines, etc. The kind of constraints that have to be added are discussed, and it is shown how they can be fed in a general framework. Experimental results on real data prove the feasibility, and experiments on simulated data address the accuracy of the results.>

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