3D MODEL RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTIPLE VIEWS USING OPEN SOURCE TOOLS

Abstract

The development of 3D model reconstruction has grown rapidly for applications such as computer vision, object recognition, pose estimation, reverse engineering, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality etc. This work presents a novel technique for 3D model reconstruction from multiple views by combining the ideas from structuring and modeling. Our approach to 3D model reconstruction consists of three major phases viz object image acquisition, 3D object point cloud generation and mesh model creation from point cloud. It is demonstrated that by integrating the functionalities from open source tools like VisualSFM and MeshLab, it is possible to reconstruct 3D model of an object very effectively and efficiently.