3D models built with Kinect style depth camera

3D maps generated with the depth camera underlying Kinect. The models were generated by walking once through the lab environment, more complete maps could be built as well. The first part of the video shows raw, colored point clouds. The second part shows a flythrough of a 3D map represented by small surface patches. Because the models are geometric, they can be rendered in stereoscopic 3D for shutter glasses. They can also be navigated interactively, like in a computer game. Imagine building such a model of your house or apartment and then downloading some 3D furniture models. You could check what they look like and if they fit well in the space.
Collaboration between Intel Labs Seattle and University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RGB-D
• RGBD
• depth camera
• Kinect
• 3D
• mapping
• robot
• computer vision
• Intel
• UW
• stereoscopic
• stereoscopic 3D

[RGBDvision]

Look for the technical paper titled "RGB-D Mapping: Using Depth Cameras for Dense 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments"

[MrLegendman3]

It looks like shit. But it is the best looking piece of shit I have ever seen.

[leoleonardo]

@ThereRLG2006 I agree. I personally love to think of the Police/Military applications of a system like this. Police can 3D map buildings. even Firefighters of the such, Having instant access to full 3D walkthrough style imagery with out huge capture equipment and large computers is amazing and could save lives. Not long till we see "Ghost in the Shell" Esq Things.

[dacke93]

Ahh that's how they created a realistic Matrix!

[dextanity23]

@ThereRLG2006

Yes, but what is the bigger part of that shift is combining this with ubiquitous eye/head (in the form of glasses at first, contacts eventually) mounted stereoscopic(obviously) Augmented Reality solutions. People are not even remotely realizing how dramatically that technology (and all the infrastructure that goes with it: distributed cloud computing, much faster internet, etc being necessary) is going to reshape our society, and it may only take a decade or two to get there.

[tomasusan]

@partikla86 This kind of software.

[partikla86]

what kind of software allows you to connect kinect to pc and walk by and make meshes out of it???