TechFest 2011: 3D Scanning with a regular camera or phone!

3-D television is creating a huge buzz in the consumer space, but the generation of 3-D content remains a largely professional endeavor. Our research demonstrates an easy-to-use system for creating photorealistic, 3-D-image-based models simply by walking around an object of interest with your phone, still camera, or video camera. The objects might be your custom car or motorcycle, a wedding cake or dress, a rare musical instrument, or a hand-crafted artwork. Our system uses 3-D stereo matching techniques combined with image-based modeling and rendering to create a photorealistic model you can navigate simply by spinning it around on your screen, tablet, or mobile device.

Click here for a deeper dive and RIN (Rich Interactive Narrative):
http://www.digitalnarratives.net/Tech...
(Click on the second segment in the progress bar at the bottom of this link.)


Download the original copy of this video in a number of formats at:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TechFe...

Other footage of this project can be seen at:
http://gizmodo.com/5769752/ and
http://www.technologyreview.com/compu...

New Technologies for Immersive Content Creation ( 00:00:54 - 00:15:05 )
http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/M...

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[roidroid]

what 3D?

all it was doing was generating "tweens".

[Nate Lawrence]

They are:

1: using Photosynth's structure from motion tech to solve for the camera positions in 3D space

2: using multi-view stereo to generate a dense mesh of the scene

3: creating a depth map for each input image

4: rendering each image with different parts projected at different depths in 3D when you open a spin movie.

Search the web for New Technologies for Immersive Content Creation at MIX11 and Eric Stollnitz will explain what they are doing in more detail for you.

[pratyusha rao]

absolutely awsm...im lookin forward to doin ths...luks gr8 ....brillianttttttttt ideaaaaaaaa

[Nate Lawrence]

There's been one more video put online since I uploaded this one.

Search the web for New Technologies for Immersive Content Creation at MIX11 and Eric Stollnitz will explain what they are doing in more detail for you.

[TiagoTiagoT]

Google needs to acquire that tech to make the transitions between points inside Streetview better without needing to carry 3d scanner on their cars.

[walkthroughyantram]

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