Development of 3D reconstruction system

Abstract

Real-time 3D imagery has gained special attention in many Champaign such as computer vision, virtual reality. The third dimension plays a decisive role in the analysis of dynamic or static environments. Therefore, developing a reliable real-time depth imaging system is very challenging. The depth information allows a much better analysis of the environment. This proposed system is a 3D scanner system used to obtain 3D using structured light from sequence of 2D images. This paper describes different stages of development of 3D scanner prototype, both from hardware and software point of view. Aspects such as extracting ROI, edge detection, distance transformation, and plotting the element on 3D platform are considered towards an optimal implementation of this 3D scanner. The 3D scanner composed of simple hardware such as stepper motor with rotating platform, motor driver, Arduino, an uvc camera, and proper lighting system. On software part Linux operating system is used along with python as programming language. The libraries such as Open CV, numpy, matplotlib, tkinter are used for development.