The goal of this project is to develop a real-time distributed system (based on
the Keck Lab PC cluster) for volumetric reconstruction of real world
objects (static or moving), and displaying the reconstructed objects from an arbitrary virtual point
in 3D.
To show how the system works with synchronized image sequences, we captured a multi-perspective sequence called "conductor", and had the system reconstruct the volume occupied by the conductor's body for each frame of the sequence. Then we rendered the 3D image sequence from several virtual points so that the 3D scene could be viewed from "underneath the floor", from "above the ceiling", and from a virtual "fly" perspective.
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