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Microsoft Researchers Generate 3D Models From Ordinary Smartphones
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.
Fortunately, Windows 10 detects this attempt at copyright infringement, prevents the app from running, and sends your name and address to the cops.
This does seem pretty cool, but editing?
TFS:
Microsoft does not claim to release an app anytime sooner.
And TFA:
Currently, the app is not available for download - however the team is planning on launching it soon.
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Soon, we can have that sonar thingy Lucius Fox did for Batman in the Dark Knight movie.
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Again.....porn.
You thought dick pics were obnoxious? Wait until you see what comes out of your 3d printer.
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I'm an engineer for Wayne Enterprises and I can assure you we've had this technology for 7 years available to purchase by military and defense agencies. Its only ever been used twice though, once for system testing and another time by Lucius Fox, one of our business section managers who said he was demoing it for a bat sanctuary or something.
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Feed it from a webcam pointed at a human, get 'em to rotate and dance and wiggle til you have a model of their body. Figure out the minimum energy morph from that to the model of your in-game sexy VR avatar, get all those fingers lining up right, should be easy with a matchingly rigged skeleton. Now render from your new avatars viewport in VR. Properly textured, responsive to you in real time, with minimal lag, that'll work a treat.
The next Skyrim'll be fun.
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.
I want a 3D model of her.
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
...but can they translate the 3D data into a hologram format!
http://bgr.com/2015/08/10/iphone-hologram-projector-hack-android/
Pretty sure Google was showing this off over a year ago.
Quite likely the app is not available since MS has not found yet the 3rd party to sell the users pictures to.
This is the next paradigm in camera tech. More precise article here: http://3dprint.com/91439/mobil...
Mod Up - was going to say the same. They look very, very similar.
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.
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Windows 10 claims to be using this tech to allow for facial-login[sounds dirty enough], but is actually 3D mapping your room constantly.
It is literally watching you masturbate.
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.
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, where the IMU output is used to refine the camera pose estimated by purely image based means.
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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.
Autodesk makes a free app called "123D Catch" that builds 3D models in the cloud. It's not creating a 3D model in real time, but at least it's free and available now.
Anyone interested in this, and wanting good results, should check out Agisoft PhotoScan.
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/
FTA:
"Currently, the app is not available for download - however the team is planning on launching it soon."
FTS:
"Although the reconstruction results look promising, Microsoft does not plan to release an app anytime soon."
So...which is it?
Welcome to Apple school of advertising?
from summary: Microsoft does not plan to release an app anytime soon.
from TFA: Currently, the app is not available for download - however the team is planning on launching it soon.
Old, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion
From TFA: "Currently, the app is not available for download - however the team is planning on launching it soon."
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:
And then a little further down the buyout-chain is this:
So hey, MS, you have nothing new, but something typically behind the curve.