ReCap -create intelligent 3D models from laser scans – Autodesk This looks promising.... What would be great though is if the download link actually led to a program that could be downloaded. Just a slight problem..... ReCap -create intelligent 3D models from laser scans – Autodesk CMP SfM Web Service News 31/05/11 - New web interface (version Prague). 17/03/11 - You can now use icon in 'Datasets table' to run SfM (No XML file needed). What? CMP SfM Web Service provides a remote access to the 3D reconstruction systems developed in Center for Machine Perception, FEE, CTU Prague. Our service is available for research purposes only and access is granted on email request to Tomas Pajdla <pajdla@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>. Why? We provide the access to the service to our partners and to people in the Computer Vision community to make it easier to use our codes.
Occipital’s New Structure Sensor Turns Your iPad Into A Mobile 3D Scanner The folks at Boulder/San Francisco-based Occipital are very much software people — the company’s RedLaser app was a big hit in the early App Store days before the team sold it to eBay, as was 360 Panorama before iOS 6′s Panorama feature took some of the wind out of its sails. Their roots may be in software, but now the team is trying something very, very new. Occipital just launched a Kickstarter campaign for its very first hardware project: the Structure, a portable 3D sensor that straps to the back of your iPad that should ship by next February. Update: Wow, the Occipital team has blown past its $100K funding goal in just over three hours. “It took us out of our comfort zone,” CEO Jeff Powers admitted. Those sleepless nights seem to have paid off. The really astonishing bit is how quickly the Structure works in capturing all of this data. That breadth of those demo apps speaks to the sort of ecosystem that Powers hopes will rise up around the Structure in the weeks and months to come.
PhotoCloud - Home PhotoCloud is a browser for datasets composed of: A collection of calibrated images A 3D model over which images are aligned (point-cloud, triangle mesh, ...) In order to view them in PhotoCloud, they must undergo a specific pre-processing phase, which is performed through the PhotoCloud Index Generator tool. These pages provides instructions for downloading and installing PhotoCloud, PhotoCloudIndexGenerator, and a guide for their use. In addition, we provide two sample datasets, so that you can test PhotoCloud without generating a dataset of your own: the first one is an example of an architectural complex, featuring the Cavalieri Square in Pisa (Italy); the second one features the Michelangel`s David statue with pictures shot before and after the recent restoration (2004-2005). Videos Here are some demonstration videos: "Piazza Cavalieri" - features the Cavalieri Square in Pisa (Italy). Support and thanks VISITO Tuscany and EC IP “3DCOFORM”
Structure Sensor: Capture the World in 3D by Occipital The Structure Sensor gives mobile devices the ability to capture and understand the world in three dimensions. With the Structure Sensor attached to your mobile device, you can walk around the world and instantly capture it in a digital form. This means you can capture 3D maps of indoor spaces and have every measurement in your pocket. You can instantly capture 3D models of objects and people for import into CAD and for 3D printing. You can play mind blowing augmented reality games where the real world is your game world. If you’re a developer, Structure gives you the ability to build mobile applications that interact with the three dimensional geometry of the real world for the very first time. The Structure Sensor has been designed from the ground up to be mobile. The Structure Sensor has a mobile-optimized range that begins at 40 centimeters and stretches to over 3.5 meters. Battery-powered Anodized aluminum chassis Dual infrared LEDs What does this mean in plain terms? 1. 2. 3. 4.
Open Source Photogrammetry: Ditching 123D Catch – We Did Stuff This is part one in a series on open source photogrammetry. In part two, I’ll flesh out more VFX-centric application of this workflow. Before I start, big thanks to: Dan Short: for showing me his awesome 123d models that sparked this whole ideaHannah Davis: debugging + emotional support + snacks So a few weeks ago, Dan Short showed me 123D Catch. It was awesome. Until Dan showed me some models he generated from exhibts at the AMNH I didn’t really get the point of Catch…so what, you have a model of your water bottle…but what Dan showed me was that it worked incredible well on environments too: The Hall of African Mammals or even the penguin diarama from the infamous whale room! I remembered seeing something like this years ago: a product demo called Photosynth from Microsoft, which did this sort of reconstruction from thousands of tourist photos of the Notre Dame Cathedral. Photo limits: the iphone app seems to allow a maximum of 40 images. Here are the steps: Part 1: VisualSFM Caveats
Google's Project Tango is a smartphone with sensors to map the world around you Google's just announced Project Tango, a 5-inch Android smartphone prototype equipped with Kinect-like 3D sensors and other components to track motion and map your surroundings. Unlike other 3D-sensing devices including Kinect, Project Tango includes the Myriad 1 vision processor from Movidius, which allows for advanced motion and depth tracking without sucking a ton of power. Available to a limited group of developers today, the handset could enable enhanced indoor navigation and immersive gaming, among other things. Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group is the brains behind Tango, and ATAP head Johnny Lee (formerly of the Microsoft Kinect team) said that the prototype "strives to give mobile devices a human-like understanding of space and motion ... enabling new and enhanced types of user experiences." Comments