3-D Data Collection, Analysis, and Applications

Image Enhancement and 3-D Data Analysis

Some great classic computer vision books are available here:

Ballard and Brown's Computer Vision Computer Vision, 1982
Batchelor and Whelan's Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry, 1997
Fisher's From Surface To Objects: Computer Vision and Three Dimensional Scene Analysis, 1989
Jain and Dubes' Algorithms for Clustering Data, 1988.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge of it is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced it to the stage of science.

— Sir William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

— Dr Watson, the author, addressing Doyle, the author, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"

3-D Data Collection and Analysis

Target surfaces have a wide range of reflectivity and translucency. This makes it difficult to capture good data. The paper "A Simple Photogrammetry Rig for the Reliable Creation of 3D Artifact Models in the Field" describes the use of developer spray. [Samantha Thi Porter, Morgan Roussel, and Marie Soressi, Advances in Archaeological Practice 4(1), 2016, pp. 71-86] That's a spray of talc particles suspended in an alcohol and acetone solution, normally used to check the quality of welds. Examples are Magnaflux SKD S2 Developer in the U.S. and Révélateur Skincric R. 764 S1 in Europe. They obtained very impressive 3-D models.

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Collecting 3-D Range Data and Reflectance Maps

Range maps

Archival data format

Calculating surface normals and curvatures

Software for range map analysis

Integrating data from multiple viewpoints

Multiple viewpoint integration, part 2

Raytracing with POV-Ray

Raytraced range maps ready for animation

Adaptive local extrema detection