Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Scenes

Posted by Hemos on Sunday March 13, 2005 @04:00AM from the its-like-that-there-tv dept.

Neil Halelamien writes "New Scientist reports on a piece of software by MDRobotics called instant Scene modeler (iSM), which automatically generates 3D reconstructions of scenes, using a few hundred frames from a pair of ordinary video cameras. The software uses David Lowe's SIFT vision algorithm to quickly locate common features between sequential images, for use in the reconstruction; SIFT has also been useful for generating panoramas and object recognition. MDRobotics has a demo page showing the software being used for crime scene reconstruction, along with animated GIFs of input video and the resulting 3D model."

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I wonder if... by n0dalus · 2005-03-13 04:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Wow I bet it's just like in CSI they will be able to zoom up 10000% on the digital image, 'sharpen' it and read all sorts of interesting things off the back of things after rotating them virtually.
Set reconstruction from old movies by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-13 04:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

Though the technology would need some additional improvements, it might be interesting to apply it to tracking shots in old movies (like Casablanca) and in addition to reconstructing the sets one could also replay a scene from a slighly different angle.

The other slight modification would be to combine the possible modification (getting a slightly different angle from an existing tracking shot) and build a stereo 3D image of the shot or film segment.