Handheld camera 3D modeling system using multiple reference panels

Kouta Fujimura; Yasuhiro Oue; Tomoya Terauchi; Tetsuichi Emi

doi:10.1117/12.460178

8 March 2002 Handheld camera 3D modeling system using multiple reference panels

Kouta Fujimura, Yasuhiro Oue, Tomoya Terauchi, Tetsuichi Emi

Proceedings Volume 4661, Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications V; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460178
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

A novel 3D modeling system in which a target object is easily captured and modeled by using a hand-held camera with several reference panels is presented in this paper. The reference panels are designed to be able to obtain the camera position and discriminate between each other. A conventional 3D modeling system using a reference panel has several restrictions regarding the target object, specifically the size and its location. Our system uses multiple reference panels, which are set around the target object to remove these restrictions. The main features of this system are as follows: 1) The whole shape and photo-realistic textures of the target object can be digitized based on several still images or a movie captured by using a hand-held camera; as well as each location of the camera that can be calculated using the reference panels. 2) Our system can be provided as a software product only. That means there are no special requirements for hardware; even the reference panels , because they can be printed from image files or software. 3) This system can be applied to digitize a larger object. In the experiments, we developed and used an interactive region selection tool to detect the silhouette on each image instead of using the chroma -keying method. We have tested our system with a toy object. The calculation time is about 10 minutes (except for the capturing the images and extracting the silhouette by using our tool) on a personal computer with a Pentium-III processor (600MHz) and 320MB memory. However, it depends on how complex the images are and how many images you use. Our future plan is to evaluate the system with various kind of objects, specifically, large ones in outdoor environments.

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Kouta Fujimura, Yasuhiro Oue, Tomoya Terauchi, and Tetsuichi Emi "Handheld camera 3D modeling system using multiple reference panels", Proc. SPIE 4661, Three-Dimensional Image Capture and Applications V, (8 March 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460178

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