@inproceedings{ramnath2014car, author = {Ramnath, Krishnan and Sinha, Sudipta and Szeliski, Rick and Hsiao, Ed}, title = {Car Make and Model Recognition using 3D Curve Alignment}, booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, year = {2014}, month = {March}, abstract = {We present a new approach for recognizing the make and model of a car from a single image. While most previous methods are restricted to fixed or limited viewpoints, our system is able to verify a car’s make and model from an arbitrary view. Our model consists of 3D space curves obtained by back projecting image curves onto silhouette-based visual hulls and then refining them using three-view curve matching. These 3D curves are then matched to 2D image curves using a 3D view-based alignment technique. We present two different methods for estimating the pose of a car, which we then use to initialize the 3D curve matching. Our approach is able to verify the exact make and model of a car over a wide range of viewpoints in cluttered scenes.}, publisher = {IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/car-make-model-recognition-using-3d-curve-alignment-3/}, edition = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, }