A Mobile 3D City Reconstruction System

A city’s architecture gives physical form to the needs and aspirations of its residents. This fact is reflected in the complexity, variation and beauty of many cities. Current techniques for creating the architecture of virtual cities range from hand crafting by artists to highly automated procedural methods. In this paper we describe an efficient flexible capture and reconstruction system for the automatic reconstruction of large scale urban scenes. The system can be both backpack and vehicle mounted allowing the capture of interior or less accessible areas as well as large outdoor scenes.