Will the iPhone 4 replace the Kinect controller ?

The following 3D data was extracted from a pair of stereo-paired iPhone 4 videos recording at 30 fps. The streams were processed with XYZ-RGB's proprietary stereo vision technology named: Scanner Killer.

This is not pseudo 3D, the output has not been modified in any manner. The captured 3D information is entirely accurate and precise. The 3D data was extracted at a 3mm spatial resolution with 300 microns accuracy, 1-sigma precision.

With a second internal camera the iPhone 4 could replace Microsoft's Kinect controller. An IR projection is not required with our technique.

Scanner Killer iPhone full sequence

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• iPhone
• iPhone 4
• 3D
• 4D
• 30
• fps
• Kinect
• Apple
• stereo-vision
• XYZ-RGB
• XYZ
• RGB
• Scanner
• Killer
• Helmut
• Kungl
• photogrammetry
• stereo
• facial
• capture
• performance

[solCruiser]

the IR-projection from kinect is better for low light conditions

[helmutkungl]

Do you mean the Kinect works better under low light conditions ? If so yes, it has a harder time resolving its active IR coded pattern in the presence of sunlight which has an IR component that washes out it's own pattern.

[solCruiser]

@helmutkungl (i 'am also from germany so...) - guter Einwand - stimmt !!! dann ist der Einsatz als Sensor für Roboter im Ausseneinsatz schonmal nicht geeignet. Im Innenraum ist ja der Infrarotanteil auch bei Tageslicht sehr gering (Fensterscheiben, wenig Reflexion)

[helmutkungl]

@solCruiser

My German is at about the level of a 5 year old- which is when we immigrated to Canada... Leider mein Deutsche ist nicht sehr gut.

[jaysteels]

Is there an app for rhis?

[helmutkungl]

There will be next week for $399 on the Scanner Killer site

[JohnnyKidder]

HAN SOLO LIVES!!!!!

[visScience]

cool! next generation of phones will have stereo vision by default. what technique did you use to generate the surface mesh?

[EdogaruTech]

@helmutkungl But you need 2 iPhones, Kinect is cheaper. And the CPU of the PC or laptop is higher

[KeithWasHere1]

looks like an electric afro

[albertoju1997]

That is Albert Einstein

[BLinDaTbESt]

@helmutkungl You're kidding...