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2014.06 – 3D point clouds from conventional Smartphones

I was really interested on this new application from my colleagues of the Computer Vision and Geometry Lab of ETH Zurich. They developed an application for smartphone that turns mobile-captured images into 3D point clouds. The user simply moves the phone around the object of interest aiming to maximize the common points between both images and a big enough parallax to obtain the relief. The point cloud is processed using Structure From Motion algorithms, with the aid of the internal sensors of the mobile phone.

I wish I could have a Beta tester version to show to my friend and colleagues on the go, when I’m trying to explain them the meaning of what a point cloud is  🙂

More info here: https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/media-information/media-releases/2013/12/smartphone-as-scanner.html

Categorized: LiDAR , News , Photogrammetry

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  1. Adri says:

    This is amazing! The interactive process will allow the user to make sure that there are no shadow areas during the acquisition process.

    Great job!

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