Chris Engels

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Research Interests

• Urban 3D Reconstruction
• Uncertainty in epipolar geometry
• Structure from motion (SfM)
• Vision-based SLAM

Publications

• H. Stewénius, C. Engels, and D. Nistér. An efficient minimal solution for infinitesimal camera motion. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2007. To appear
• C. Engels, H. Stewénius, and D. Nistér. Bundle adjustment rules. In Photogrammetric Computer Vision (PCV), September 2006. pdf
• A. Akbarzadeh, J.-M. Frahm, P. Mordohai, B. Clipp, C. Engels, D. Gallup, P. Merrell, M. Phelps, S. Sinha, B. Talton, L. Wang, Q. Yang, H. Stewénius, R. Yang, G. Welch, H. Towles, D. Nistér, and M. Pollefeys. Towards urban 3d reconstruction from video. In Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT), May 2006. Invited paper. pdf
• D. Nistér, C. Engels. Visually Estimated Motion of Vehicle-Mounted Cameras with Global Uncertainty. SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Unmanned Systems Technology VIII, April 2006. pdf
• H. Stewénius, C. Engels, and D. Nistér. Recent developments on direct relative orientation. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 60:284-294, June 2006. link pdf
• C. Engels, D. Nistér. Global Uncertainty in Epipolar Geometry via Fully and Partially Data-Driven Sampling. Towards Benchmarking Automated Calibration, Orientation and Surface Reconstruction from Images (BenCOS), October 2005. pdf

Code

• Minimal case solvers