Capturing photorealistic and printable 3D models using low-cost hardware

Abstract

Recent advances in low cost RGB-D sensors and progress in reconstruction approaches paves way for creating real-time 3D models of people. It is equally important to enhance the visual appeal of such 3D models with textures. Most of the existing approaches use per-vertex colors, such that the color resolution is limited to mesh resolution. In this paper, we propose a feasible solution for texturing 3D models of people (3D busts) using a low-cost RGB-D sensor setup that automatically constructs the 3D geometry and textures the model in just a few minutes. Experimental evaluations evaluate the performance of the approach on synthetic and real world data against the computational time and visual appeal.