A Survey of Passive 3D Reconstruction Methods on the Basis of More than One Image

The research on the 3D scene reconstruction on the basis of its images and video recordings has been in progress for many years. As a~result there is a~number of methods concerning how to manage the reconstruction problem. This articles goal is to present the most important methods of reconstruction including stereo vision, shape from motion, shape from defocus, shape form silhouettes. shape from photo-consistency. All the algorithms explained in this article can be used on images taken with casual cameras in an ordinary illuminated scene (passive methods).