scholarly journals Monitoring coastal morphology: the potential of low‐cost fixed array action cameras for 3D reconstruction

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 2478-2494
Author(s):  
Samantha Godfrey ◽  
James Cooper ◽  
Frederic Bezombes ◽  
Andrew Plater
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Coastal Morphology ◽  
Fixed Array

Online 3D Reconstruction in Underwater Environment Using a Low-Cost Depth Camera

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
Luigi Scarfone ◽  
Rosario Aiello ◽  
Umberto Severino ◽  
Loris Barbieri ◽  
Fabio Bruno
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Depth Camera ◽  
Underwater Environment

scholarly journals A 3D Reconstruction Pipeline of Urban Drainage Pipes Based on MultiviewImage Matching Using Low-Cost Panoramic Video Cameras

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang ◽  
Zhao ◽  
Hu ◽  
Wang ◽  
Ai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Image Matching ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Geometric Distortion ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Affine Invariant ◽  
Pipe Inspection ◽  
Video Cameras ◽  
Panoramic Video

Urban drainage pipe networks have complex spatial contributions, andthey are now facing problems such as damage, defects, and aging. A rapid and high-precision pipe inspection strategy is thekey to ensuring thesustainable development of urban water supply and drainage system. In this paper, a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction pipeline of urban drainage pipes based on multiview image matching using low-cost panoramic video cameras is proposed, which provides an innovative technical approach for pipe inspection. Firstly, we extracted frames from the panoramic video of the pipes andcorrected the geometric distortion using a spherical reprojection to obtain multiview pipe images. Second, the robust feature matching method using support lines and affine-invariant ratios isintroduced to conduct pipe image matching. Finally, the photogrammetric processing, using structure from motion (SfM) and dense reconstruction, wasintroduced to achieve the 3D modeling of drainage pipes. Several typical drainage pipes and shafts of the real scenes were taken for the 3D reconstruction experiments. Theresults show that our strategy can realize high-precision 3D reconstruction of different types of pipes, which can provide effective technical support for rapid and efficient inspection of urban pipes with broad application prospects in the daily management of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDSs).

scholarly journals Structured-Light Based 3D Reconstruction System for Cultural Relic Packaging

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Limei Song ◽  
Xinyao Li ◽  
Yan-gang Yang ◽  
Xinjun Zhu ◽  
Qinghua Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Structured Light ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cloud Data ◽  
Dimensional Measurement ◽  
Cost System ◽  
Three Dimensional Measurement ◽  
Cultural Relics

The non-contact three-dimensional measurement and reconstruction techniques have played a significant role in the packaging and transportation of precious cultural relics. This paper develops a structured light based three-dimensional measurement system, with a low-cost for cultural relics packaging. The structured light based system performs rapid measurements and generates 3D point cloud data, which is then denoised, registered and merged to achieve accurate 3D reconstruction for cultural relics. The multi-frequency heterodyne method and the method in this paper are compared. It is shown that the relative accuracy of the proposed low-cost system can reach a level of 1/1000. The high efficiency of the system is demonstrated through experimental results.

scholarly journals Low-Cost and Efficient Indoor 3D Reconstruction Through Annotated Hierarchical Structure-from-Motion

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youli Ding ◽  
Xianwei Zheng ◽  
Yan Zhou ◽  
Hanjiang Xiong ◽  
and Jianya Gong
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Structure From Motion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Procrustes Analysis ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Indoor Spaces

With the widespread application of location-based services, the appropriate representation of indoor spaces and efficient indoor 3D reconstruction have become essential tasks. Due to the complexity and closeness of indoor spaces, it is difficult to develop a versatile solution for large-scale indoor 3D scene reconstruction. In this paper, an annotated hierarchical Structure-from-Motion (SfM) method is proposed for low-cost and efficient indoor 3D reconstruction using unordered images collected with widely available smartphone or consumer-level cameras. Although the reconstruction of indoor models is often compromised by the indoor complexity, we make use of the availability of complex semantic objects to classify the scenes and construct a hierarchical scene tree to recover the indoor space. Starting with the semantic annotation of the images, images that share the same object were detected and classified utilizing visual words and the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. The SfM method was then applied to hierarchically recover the atomic 3D point cloud model of each object, with the semantic information from the images attached. Finally, an improved random sample consensus (RANSAC) generalized Procrustes analysis (RGPA) method was employed to register and optimize the partial models into a complete indoor scene. The proposed approach incorporates image classification in the hierarchical SfM based indoor reconstruction task, which explores the semantic propagation from images to points. It also reduces the computational complexity of the traditional SfM by avoiding exhausting pair-wise image matching. The applicability and accuracy of the proposed method was verified on two different image datasets collected with smartphone and consumer cameras. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to efficiently and robustly produce semantically and geometrically correct indoor 3D point models.

scholarly journals Affordable But Not Cheap: A Case Study of the Effects of Two 3D-Reconstruction Methods of Virtual Humans

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bartl ◽  
Stephan Wenninger ◽  
Erik Wolf ◽  
Mario Botsch ◽  
Marc Erich Latoschik
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
User Study ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Virtual Humans ◽  
Cost Approach ◽  
Immersive Virtual Environment ◽  
Reconstruction Methods ◽  
Human Likeness ◽  
Game Engines ◽  
Objectively Measured

Realistic and lifelike 3D-reconstruction of virtual humans has various exciting and important use cases. Our and others’ appearances have notable effects on ourselves and our interaction partners in virtual environments, e.g., on acceptance, preference, trust, believability, behavior (the Proteus effect), and more. Today, multiple approaches for the 3D-reconstruction of virtual humans exist. They significantly vary in terms of the degree of achievable realism, the technical complexities, and finally, the overall reconstruction costs involved. This article compares two 3D-reconstruction approaches with very different hardware requirements. The high-cost solution uses a typical complex and elaborated camera rig consisting of 94 digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. The recently developed low-cost solution uses a smartphone camera to create videos that capture multiple views of a person. Both methods use photogrammetric reconstruction and template fitting with the same template model and differ in their adaptation to the method-specific input material. Each method generates high-quality virtual humans ready to be processed, animated, and rendered by standard XR simulation and game engines such as Unreal or Unity. We compare the results of the two 3D-reconstruction methods in an immersive virtual environment against each other in a user study. Our results indicate that the virtual humans from the low-cost approach are perceived similarly to those from the high-cost approach regarding the perceived similarity to the original, human-likeness, beauty, and uncanniness, despite significant differences in the objectively measured quality. The perceived feeling of change of the own body was higher for the low-cost virtual humans. Quality differences were perceived more strongly for one’s own body than for other virtual humans.

scholarly journals Low-Cost CSI Using Forensic GPR, 3D Reconstruction, and GIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (05) ◽  
pp. 493-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier Matteo Barone ◽  
Rosa Maria Di Maggio
Keyword(s):  
3D Reconstruction ◽  
Low Cost
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