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Microsoft Researchers Generate 3D Models From Ordinary Smartphones 48

Posted by timothy from the full-size-model-of-earth dept.
New submitter subh_arya writes: Engineers from Microsoft Research have unveiled the first technology to perform 3D surface reconstruction from ordinary smartphone cameras. Their computational framework creates a connected 3D surface model by continuously registering RGB input to an incrementally built 3D model. Although the reconstruction results look promising, Microsoft does not plan to release an app anytime soon.
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Microsoft Researchers Generate 3D Models From Ordinary Smartphones

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  • Windows 10 (Score:3, Funny)

    by 0123456 ( 636235 ) on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @01:48PM (#50389349)

    Fortunately, Windows 10 detects this attempt at copyright infringement, prevents the app from running, and sends your name and address to the cops.

  • Soon, we can have that sonar thingy Lucius Fox did for Batman in the Dark Knight movie.

  • Again.....porn.

    You thought dick pics were obnoxious? Wait until you see what comes out of your 3d printer.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @01:59PM (#50389433)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by subh_arya ( 822633 )
      Its true that the concept of 3D reconstruction from dense stereo/structure from motion is not new. However, the computational pipeline integrated entirely into a mobile device without any expensive hardware or offloading computation on a cloud, differentiates this effort from the previous ones.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      I wish someone would make an app that I can measure objects with just the camera, and maybe a reference object fur scale.

      Develop that and you too can live the life of Bruce Wayne.

  • launching it soon (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Seems the submitter didn't read the article:

    Currently, the app is not available for download - however the team is planning on launching it soon.

  • 123D Catch? Autodesk already has an app doing this (Score:4, Interesting)

    by gmezero ( 4448 ) on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @02:20PM (#50389619) Homepage

    Why is this news? I'm already doing this on my Android phone with 123D Catch and it's available for iOS and Windows Phone as well. You can find more about it here.

    http://www.123dapp.com/catch

    • Mod Up - was going to say the same. They look very, very similar.

    • Re:123D Catch? Autodesk already has an app doing t (Score:5, Informative)

      by Thagg ( 9904 ) <thadbeier@gmail.com> on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @02:35PM (#50389739) Journal

      The differences are significant:

      1) The Microsoft app works in real-time on the phone, rather than 123D Catch processing in the cloud
      2) The Microsoft app shows real-time results, so you can see where there are issues, and continue to photograph until they are resolved. With 123D Catch you patch errors in post.
      3) The Autodesk 123D Catch app actually exists, and the earlier web-based version has been around for about four years.

      I'm kind of surprised that Microsoft isn't using the acceleration and magnetic sensors in the phone to help determine the camera position. It's one of the features that phone cameras have that DSLR's don't.

      • I'm kind of surprised that Microsoft isn't using the acceleration and magnetic sensors in the phone to help determine the camera position. It's one of the features that phone cameras have that DSLR's don't.

        Actually they do. Fig.2 in the paper [ox.ac.uk], where the IMU output is used to refine the camera pose estimated by purely image based means.

    • It's not news,it's just that Gates wants micros oft users to think his product is still relevant. It's finally come to this; copying someone else's efforts and proclaiming it to be yours? It's tragic.
  • This is the next paradigm in camera tech. More precise article here: http://3dprint.com/91439/mobil... [3dprint.com]

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by tsm_sf ( 545316 )
      Now we just need to wait about 10 years for phone hardware to reach a point where this will create usable, useful models.
  • Federal grant idea. You know, the 3D tech is all over the place, the data base of 3D objects is not. How about having some unemployed STEM minions go out and map objects at places like Home Depot, Lowes, and Ikea? Create a Cloud of models for tools, furniture, auto parts, and farm tools; in short, everything that is man made and turn it into a 3D print. Someones going to do it.

  • Anyone interested in this, and wanting good results, should check out Agisoft PhotoScan [agisoft.com].

    • I'm using it right now with 634 RTK Geo referenced photos. Sometimes the results are astonishing, others leave room for improvement. Sony A5100 currently moving to A7R tonight, for use with UAV.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by vipw ( 228 )

        I'm doing product shots. It's really astonishing. It's like I've built the transporter from Star Trek.

  • There is a similar app on iOS that I have played with. It does work a little differently though. I takes 4 pictures of an object up close to the camera by moving a white light around the edges of the screen (while the camera stays in one place) in a dark room and uses the shadows to map the 3d object. Seems to work ok but does require a dark room and the object to be very close to the camera. This one works entirely on the phone and doesn't involve a cloud. http://www.trimensional.com/ [trimensional.com]

  • because MS is far from the first with something like this.

    My copy of "Strata Foto 3D CX" does exactly this same thing. And yes, I use my 8 Mpx iPhone camera to record images. These ultimately yield a color-mapped, 3D-skinned, object.

    In the "About" box, one finds the following:

    "Copyright (c) 2002-11, Creative Dimension Software Ltd . A ll rights reserved."

    And then a little further down the buyout-chain is this:

    Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. Copyright

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