3D scanning on mobile phones

Smartphones are amazing devices that almost everyone of us now carries in our pockets. They allow us to always be connected through social networks and communication platforms. A smartphone is just like a computer, a really capable one, so much that some may claim that a smartphone will soon be the only computer we need. Large percentage of these smartphones also come with built-in cameras. This provide a easier way to edit and share photographs taken using the smartphone camera. This report describes a project that demonstrates the development of an Android application for 3D reconstruction. Images of an object can be captured within the application using the android’s built-in camera. These images will then be sent to a laptop computer server using socket programming in java. The laptop computer server performs a structure from motion algorithm which reconstructs the object digitally as a three-dimensional mesh. The resulting 3D mesh is sent back to the android client device via socket programming for viewing.Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering