Kinect 3D Scanner

This is my first attempt at making a 3D Scanner using Microsoft's Kinect for the XBox 360.
Right now it's just a quick processing sketch that exports a mesh reconstructed from the raw depth data from the kinect, using ply format.
After smoothing, closing holes and cleaning faces and vertices in meshLab, the results are quite acceptable.
Depth precision drops as the subject moves away from the scanner, as does XY precision (depth camera is only 320x240), but it should perform fine for simple scans. Anyway, it's real time 3D scanning for €150...

As soon as I find the time I will look into calibrating color and depth cameras. That should allow me to texture the model on the spot and simplify the processes of joining meshes into one 3D model. Maybe I'll even automate the process, providing real time scanning, who knows...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• microsoft kinect hack
• kinect
• 3d
• 3d scanner
• realtime
• depth
• model
• 3d model
• processing
• CLNUI
• Java

[schprlock]

@patmcc19

Yes, I formated the hd and I didn't keep a backup. This sketch was created on the day I bought my kinect just to try it out, then I totally forgot about it. Anyway, it's quite simple... Two nested loops going thru the depth cam buffer (x and y), crated polygons from x, y to x+1, y+1. The only part that was a bit more complicated was the export.

I never even thought of creating a new one because now there is so many great quality, free software.

[schprlock]

partikla86, I used pixelnerve's CLNUI for Java under processing. It gave me an error when trying to run but it compiles fine. It should also be working fine under Eclipse.

This is for Windows, it doesn't run on the Mac.

[schprlock]

Well, if you search for it (try "kinect depth +qvga" without the "s, you'll get different information. People who say the resolution is vga but the xbox only gets 320x240, others who say it's qvga but it gets an interpolated bitmap in vga. I don't know the real reolution, but the general information at the time I did this was that resolution was qvga. That's the information that MS provided to retailers.

[schprlock]

Hi,

Thanks for your comment. Your site seems great, I wish my German wasn't so "rusty".

Regards

[bigboy6969100]

how do you do it

[patmcc19]

Is there a reason your not sharing the processing sketch?

[ThePete96]

Awsome ;) how?

[DragonFire360Media]

Nice! I am looking into do something like this with the kinect too.

[LaughingPsycho]

Excellent.

[MrAbeAllen]

Hi. thanks for posting this. I am planning on doing 3D scanning via Kinect too. just giving a heads up that I may ask for advice at some point.. Am going to be scanning in with Kinect and cutting out via Mayka software with a 6-axis robot.. for art projects.

[partikla86]

what kind of software do you use to connect kinect to pc and scan something??