To show the three-dimensional (3D) shape of a live toad embryo is helpful to understand the toad embryo development. It is also desired to make more details visible by using high magnification objective lens. However, limited depth-of-field and field-of-view make it challenging to use high magnification objective lens in imaging the embryo development. This paper shows that 3D reconstruction of...

In this paper, we target enhanced 3D reconstruction of non-rigidly deforming objects based on a view-independent surface representation with an automated recursive filtering scheme. This work improves upon the KinectDeform algorithm which we recently proposed. KinectDeform uses an implicit viewdependent volumetric truncated signed distance function (TSDF) based surface representation. The view-...

3D reconstruction from visual hulls is a well established technique for camera based reconstruction of 3D objects in computer graphics. We propose in this paper to employ visual hull techniques to quantify the volume of diffusely defined gaseous structures. In our evaluation, visual quality of the 3D reconstructions is secondary. Instead, using synthetic ground truth data, we determine the numb...

3D reconstruction pipelines using structure-from-motion and multi-view stereo techniques are today able to reconstruct impressive, large-scale geometry models from images but do not yield textured results. Current texture creation methods are unable to handle the complexity and scale of these models. We therefore present the first comprehensive texturing framework for large-scale, real-world 3D...

A wide-spread use of 3D models in cultural heritage application requires low cost equipment and simple modeling procedures. In this context, passive 3D reconstruction methods allow to build 3D models from a set of calibrated cameras, without the need of expensive machinery. Unfortunately the surfaces characteristics often lead to bad quality reconstructions. Recent efforts attempt to combine to...

The problem addressed here can be concisely formulated as follows: Given a stable surface orientation with a known reconstruction and given a direction in the plane of this surface, find the atomic structure of the steps oriented along that direction. We report a robust and generally applicable variable-number genetic algorithm for determining the atomic configuration of crystallographic steps,...

This work presents a method for reconstructing 3D tongue surfaces during speech from ultrasound data. The method reduces the dimensionality of the tongue surface and maintains highly accurate reproduction of local deformation features. This modification is an essential step if multiplane tongue movements are to be reconstructed practically into tongue surface movements. Earlier work (Stone & Lu...

The aim of this work is to develop a well-balanced Central Weighted Essentially Non Oscillatory (CWENO) method, fourth-order accurate in space and time, for shallow water system of balance laws with bed slope source term. Time accuracy is obtained applying a Runge-Kutta scheme (RK), coupled with the Natural Continuous Extension (NCE) approach. Space accuracy is obtained using WENO reconstructio...

The relief of the seafloor is an important source of data for many scientists. In this paper we present an optical system to deal with underwater 3D reconstruction. This system is formed by three cameras that take images synchronously in a constant frame rate scheme. We use the images taken by these cameras to compute dense 3D reconstructions. We use Bundle Adjustment to estimate the motion of ...

This paper focuses on how the accuracy of marker-less human motion capture is affected by the number of camera views used. Specifically, we compare the 3D reconstructions calculated from single and multiple cameras. We perform our experiments on data consisting of video from multiple cameras synchronized with ground truth 3D motion, obtained from a motion capture session with a professional foo...