Dev Blog
In a similar vein to the image-matching against point-clouds that was demonstrated in the Bing Maps TED talk, PhotoCity is aiming to progressively construct a 3D scan of the world. To this end they have released a free iPhone app that displays current scans,…
I’ve discussed (with examples of a reconstruction from Newcastle) some of the technologies for doing 3D reconstruction. PhotoSynth is by far the easiest way to get into this, but it is not as powerful as some other options. For example, PMVS2 allows you to reconstruct…
A few weeks ago I posted the point-cloud reconstruction of an event in Newcastle, Australia, created from photos. My research colleague Jules Cromarty has meshed the point-cloud and brought it into the computer game Crysis. Here are the results: This is…
From Beyond the Beyond and Shapeways blog: Inventor Enrico Dini has built a large-scale 3D fabricator that uses sand and resin to construct some fantastic shapes, presumably at a strength appropriate for buildings. (Try and ignore the contrived-cool fashion of the presenter):
I have been working with Bundler and PMVS2 to reconstruct some of my old multi-camera scans from 2007. There is a lot of potential to get some really good output from them, but at the moment I’m getting incomplete results; only one side comes out….
My research colleague Vinh Nguyen sent me this video of Washington University’s latest image-based reconstruction project (via a New Scientist article “Entire cities recreated from Flickr photos”). The video shows reconstructed mesh models of the city of Rome. The meshes were constructed using…
Qi Pan, a 3rd year PhD student at Cambridge University Engineering Department, has developed a system for on-line (constructed in real-time) webcam based reconstruction of textured 3D models. The video shows off the potential for this best: Even better news is that a demo may…