“Towards a unified approach to 3D environment capture and rendering” by Watson and Lamond
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- Towards a unified approach to 3D environment capture and rendering
Session/Category Title: Computer Vision
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Abstract:
Two technologies for reconstruction of environments have emerged in recent years: active scanning with a laser rangefinder, and passive photogrammetry. While these techniques have taken great strides in realism in recent years we believe the best solution for 3D capture ultimately lies in the integration of these two methodologies. To this end we have developed a software framework to handle the different data types and integrate two capture methods.
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Nyland, L. and Lastra, A. and McAllister, D., and Popescu, V. and McCue, C., Capturing, Processing and Rendering Real-World Scenes. Videometrics and Optical Methods for 3D Shape Measurement, Electronic Imaging 2001
Stamos, I., and Allen, P., 3-D Model Reconstruction Using Range and Image Data. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, pages 531–536, 2000.
Acknowledgements:
The authors wish to acknowledge the support of EPSRC for project funding. We would also like to thank Dr. Paul Debevec and Dr. Lars Nyland for their assistance with this project.