Plans and Goals for the first week
- Contacts
- Meeting up with our contact professor
- Project Branding
- Creating a project blog
- Name the project
- Design a logo and icon
- Project Managment
- Planning the allocation of time
- Keeping track of workhours
- Flowchart of the project
- Project
- Defining the problem and how to approach it
- Limiting the size of the solution to the problem
- Figuring out the possible customers for this technology
- Defining the main goal of the project
- List of open source technologies that can create 3D models from photographs
Creating the Project Blog
Created the project blog (the one you are reading right now).
- About page contains some general information about the project
- Contact page contains information about the authors of the project.
Source code of this blog is hosted at GitHub and the blog it self is in the project GitHub pages.
3D Reconstruction from Photos
When taking traditional photos of 3-dimensional world, it is projected into 2-dimensional surface and the depth is lost. In order to restore this lost dimension, one way to reconstuct it is as inversion problem, meaning reconstruction from multiple images [1].
Comparison with Other Technologies
LIDAR is a surveying method that measures distance to a target by illuminating that target with a laser light [2]
Pros and cons comparing 3D recostruction from images versus LIDAR
- Pros
- Cheaper than LIDAR
- More available to consumers
- Is able to create texture and colors for the surfaces
- Images can be analysed without visiting the place.
- Cons
- A lot less accurate
Potential Uses and Customers
- Industry
- Not accurate enough to replace LIDAR
- Constumers
- Decoration app
- Games
- Navigation with smart glasses inside buildings
- Architects
- Creating quick drafts when full precision is not needed
- Displaying different choices for decoration in virtual or alternate reality
- Other
- Building safety design
- Virtual models of existing buildings