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40 3D scanning based on computer vision technique
Area Award: Computer Vision
Hansen Chen
Xiaobo Dong
Xingqian Xu
Mustafa Mir design_document0.pdf
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A 3D scanner is a device that analyzes a real-world object to collect data on its shape and appearance. Then the collected data can be used to reconstruct digital three dimensional models. The collected 3D data is very useful for a wide variety of applications, especially for the entertainment industry in the production of movies and video games. There are plenty of technologies for digitally acquiring the shape of a 3D object. Most of the well known 3D scanners are active scanners, which emit some kind of radiation and detect its reflection in order to probe an object. The active scanners are precise but expensive, because most active scanners are laser-base. Our group is trying to make a passive scanner without using any laser, which is affordable for home usage, like in X-Box 360.
Our passive 3D scanner is camera-based. First of all, fix a sample object in the center of circle, and then our camera move around the circle to collect the data of the object. Second, acquire discrete frame from the video by the same difference angular degree. Third, do segmentation on each frame. That is acquiring the information of the sample object from each angle. Forth, put the information from each angle on our 3D matrix. Overall, we can reconstruct our sample object.

LED Cube

Michael Lin, Raymond Yeh

LED Cube

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LED technology is more advanced and much more efficient than traditional incandescent light bulbs and as such our team decided we wanted to build a device related to LEDs. An LED cube is inherently aesthetically pleasing and ours will be capable of displaying 3D animations and lighting patterns with much increased complexity compared to any 2D display of comparable resolution. Environmental interaction will also be able to control the various lighting effects on the cube. Although our plan is for a visually pleasing cube, our implementation can easily be adapted for more practical applications such as displaying 3D models.