A Point-and-Shoot Color 3D Camera

Recently, various technologies have become available for scanning real-world objects, enabling rapid and accurate shape acquisition. In most cases, such solutions have high cost, lack portability and require a considerable amount of user intervention. We present a lightweight, point-andshoot 3D camera, intended for reconstruction of smooth surfaces. Our approach extracts 3D shape from a single image and is completely automatic. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by capturing the shapes of several objects and human faces.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: 3DIM
• Authors: Askold V. Strat, Manuel M. Oliveira
• Keywords: 3DIM 2003, Accurate Shape Acquisition, Point-andshoot 3D Camera, Real-world Objects