3D Photography on Your Desk

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Yves Bouguet;Pietro Perona

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '98 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A simple and inexpenssive approach for extracting the three-dimentional shape of objects is presented. It is based on 'weak structured lighting'; it differs from other conventional structured lighting approaches in that it requires very little hardware besides the camera: a desk-lamp, a pencil and a checkerboard. The camera faces the object, which is illuminated by the desk-lamp. The user moves a pencil in front of the light source casting a moving shadow on the object. The 3D shape of the object is extracted from the spatial and temporal location of the observed shadow. Experimental results are presented on three different scenes demonstrating that the error in reconstructing the surface is less than 1%.