Low-cost three-dimensional scanning using range imaging

  • Authors:
  • Charles Pheatt;Jorge Ballester;Dustin Wilhelmi

  • Affiliations:
  • Emporia State University, Emporia, KS;Emporia State University, Emporia, KS;Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes a low-cost hardware and software system for the three-dimensional digitizing of objects. The system employs laser scanning using two diode laser sources, digital still camera, and a suite of software for acquiring, aligning, and viewing scanned data. This implementation leverages the availability of inexpensive diode lasers and recently developed image-processing techniques to provide accurate representations of 3D objects. The components used to construct the scanning apparatus as well as the postprocessing software developed are discussed.