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Algorithms for 3D Shape Scanning with a Depth Camera
May 2013 (vol. 35 no. 5)
pp. 1039-1050
Yan Cui, Augmented Vision, DFKI, Kaiserslautern
Sebastian Schuon, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Saarland
Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University, Palo Alto
Didier Stricker, Augmented Vision, DFKI, Kaiserslautern
Christian Theobalt, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Saarbruecken
We describe a method for 3D object scanning by aligning depth scans that were taken from around an object with a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera. These ToF cameras can measure depth scans at video rate. Due to comparably simple technology, they bear potential for economical production in big volumes. Our easy-to-use, cost-effective scanning solution, which is based on such a sensor, could make 3D scanning technology more accessible to everyday users. The algorithmic challenge we face is that the sensor's level of random noise is substantial and there is a nontrivial systematic bias. In this paper, we show the surprising result that 3D scans of reasonable quality can also be obtained with a sensor of such low data quality. Established filtering and scan alignment techniques from the literature fail to achieve this goal. In contrast, our algorithm is based on a new combination of a 3D superresolution method with a probabilistic scan alignment approach that explicitly takes into account the sensor's noise characteristics.
Index Terms:
Cameras,Image resolution,Shape,Image reconstruction,Noise,Solid modeling,Systematics,Kinect,Superresolution,global alignment,rigid transformation,nonrigid transformation,3D scanning,time-of-flight
Citation:
Yan Cui, Sebastian Schuon, Sebastian Thrun, Didier Stricker, Christian Theobalt, "Algorithms for 3D Shape Scanning with a Depth Camera," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 1039-1050, May 2013, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2012.190
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