CS E6733: 3D Photography

CS E6733, 3D Photography

Team Project 2

In this project, each team build a texture mapped, 3D model using some of the techniques discussed in class. Each team of students will be responsible for Proposing, Implementing and Presenting their project to the class. Some potential projects are listed below, but others are possible. Extra credit will be given to innovative and ambitious projects.

Due Dates:

Mar 4: Project proposal posted on line at team project website. All projects need to be approved by Prof. Allen
The projects will be presented by team members in class on Thursday, Apr. 29, and the final project report will be due a week later on May 6. Guidelines are below.
Project Report and Presentation Guidelines

Some Potential Project Ideas:

Using our Leica HDS-3000 Scanner, scan an outdoor object on the Columbia Campus (e.g a building) and create a solid model with registered 2-D imagery.

Using our Leica HDS-3000 Scanner, scan an indoor scene on the Columbia Campus (e.g. inside of Low Library) and create a solid model with automatically registered 2-D imagery. Then you can do a live ``walkthrough'' of the environment. Check out the related project at UNC which also includes an informative paper "Real-Time Rendering of Real World Environments" by David K. McAllister, Lars Nyland, Voicu Popescu, Anselmo Lastra, Chris McCue .

Scan a famous statue or large art object and build a viewable, texture mapped model of it. Several notable sculptures are displayed on the Morningside campus. Among them are Daniel Chester French's Alma Mater, on the steps of Low Memorial Library; Three-Way Piece: Points by Henry Moore, on Revson Plaza, near Jerome L. Greene Hall; Bellerophon Taming Pegasus by Jacques Lipchitz, on the facade of Jerome L. Greene Hall; a cast of Auguste Rodin's Thinker, on the lawn of Philosophy Hall; The Great God Pan by George Grey Barnard, on the lawn of Lewisohn Hall; Thomas Jefferson, in front of the Journalism Building, and Alexander Hamilton, in front of Hamilton Hall, both by William Ordway Partridge; and the Columbia Lion between Uris and Chemistry. Here is an example of a Thinker model built in a previous semester: Check out the Digital Michaelangelo Project and the Pieta Project for details.
Implement a version of the Desktop 3D Photography algorithm by J. Bouguet and P. Perona. This allows you to do 3D scanning without expensive hardware setups.

Another approach to indoor scene modeling using range and image data can be found at Yizhou Yu's research page.

3D Vision and Virtual People. Scan a classmate or youself and build a working 3-D texture mapped model of a human. Now add animation to the model. A reference is Virtual People: Capturing human models to populate virtual worlds by Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, Raymond Smith and Wei Sun, IEEE Computer Animation 1999. A paper link is at the bottom of the page.

Surprise me!