In his master thesis Sven Painer develops implements and evaluates a method to reconstruct
the liver surface from monocular mini-laparoscopic sequences. The principal focus of his
research is to create a basis for helping clinicians to write reports with quantitative
descriptions of the liver surface. A Structure from Motion approach is performed to do a sparse
reconstruction of the liver surface and subsequently this information is used in a variation
based dense 3D reconstruction. The algorithms are formulated in a causal way enabling the
implementation to be run in real-time on an adequate hardware platform. The results show a
significant performance increase and pave the way to give clinicians a feedback during video
capturing to improve the quality of the reconstruction in the near future.
