3D Flash LIDAR point cloud video registered with hand-held color camera

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Uploaded by on Apr 20, 2010

Scene was taken on the campus of Kerner Optical in San Rafael California. Flash LIDAR was mounted on a lift and a color point-and-shoot camera set in video mode was hand-held next to it and aimed at the scene.

Afterward the color video was software stabilized and synchronized with the 3D point cloud video and the two modalities are displayed simultaneously.

Processing Software: John Durkin - PSU/ARL
Data: Don Natale and Rick Tutwiler - PSU/ARL Marty Brenneis - Kerner Optical
3D Flash LIDAR: Advanced Scientific Concepts Inc.

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  • @DonaldNatale

    as for the lack of shadowing, from the trees, I think that that is more of a trick of the artificial perspectives shown by the rotating around visualization. Two things, first, when the video starts up with the front on view, right as it rotates you see the shadow on the ground near the edge of the image for a few frames. You can also see the shadow on the ground later in the clip. When this was done we were about 60 ft. in the air and had full view of the guy the whole time.

  • @ucesrlc

    Hello. Your intuition is correct, these were trees. The reason they are gray is because this was kind of an impromptu experiment where a guy literally made a cell phone video holding his camera in the area in a position which wasn't near the camera. The video was stabilized and warped to fit the field of view as best we could, but the trees were not in the original video. If you were going to do this for real you would obviously want to attach the color camera to the range camera.

  • What are the two clusters of grey point clusters that appear to be in mid-air? At first i thought they were trees, based on their fragmented structure and general shape, but they don't appear to have the colour of trees, and appear to be transparent (when the person walks through their 'shadow' his or her 'image' is not obscured, only displaced).

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