A public system for image based 3D model generation

This paper presents a service that creates complete and realistic 3D models out of a set of photographs taken with a consumer camera. In contrast to other systems which produce sparse point clouds or individual depth maps, our system automatically generates textured and dense models that require little or no post-processing. Our reconstruction pipeline features automatic camera parameter retrieval from the web and intelligent view selection. This ARC3D system is available as a public, free-to-use web service (http://www.arc3d.be). Results are made available both as a full-resolution model and as a low-resolution for web browser viewing using WebGL. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.Tingdahl D., Van Gool L., ''A public system for image based 3D model generation'', Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 6930, pp. 262-273, 2011 (5th international conference on computer vision / computer graphics collaboration techniques and applications - Mirage 2011, October 10-11, 2011, Rocquencourt, France).status: publishe