Inspired by ideas of MagWeb, Tony Buser has done an awesome glasses mod with the Kinect and ReconstructMe. He got +2.5 reading glasses and fixed them in front of the kinect. It is a bit difficult to get a complete scan with these as the image is distored, but the result looks really excellent:
The mod looks really cool, I am amazed that this actually works… It definitely shows that adding a lens to the Kinect might be a good solution to be able to scan small parts. The difficult part will be to provide a calibration method that can successfully undistort the data.
Here are the settings Tony Buser has used for this scan:
camera_size_x: 640
camera_size_y: 480
camera_fx: 514.16
camera_fy: 514.16
camera_px: 320
camera_py: 240
camera_near: 100
camera_far: 2000
volume_size: 512
volume_min {
x: -250
y: -250
z: 400
}
volume_max {
x: 250
y: 250
z: 900
}
integrate_truncation: 10
integrate_max_weight: 64
icp_max_iter: 20
icp_max_dist2: 200
icp_min_cos_angle: 0.9
smooth_normals: false
disable_optimizations: false
extract_step_fact: 0.5
AMAZING! I can’t wait to try it myself, has anyone tried the Nyko Zoom to obtain a similar result? I have one but haven’t attempted to use it.
Hi Parker, note that the Nyko Zoom lense is actually a wide-angle lense which causes less resolution due to a wider field of view.
Great work!
Thanks!
Hi manker,
did you try freenect just to see if can achive better results?
toni
No, not really. We basically just read the papers that come out and implement that
Here is mom&dad. I made special goggles with CNC and asked a watch repairmen to cut three +2.5 glasses for me.
Is there any evolution regarding the use of glasses to improve the scanning of small objects ? Has anybody thought about contactlenses?
I’m just getting into scanning (Xtion Pro live + Reconstructme).
Piet
A conctact lense seems like a fun idea. It could be a bit small though. Let me know when you have found something.
Best,
Christoph