Interactive 3-D Media with Structured Light Scanning

interactive 3-D media, structured light scanning, multiframe correspondence estimation, 3-D shape recovery, interactive view synthesis, view interpolation, active calibration The core to many 3-D related applications is establishing reliable dense correspondences among the multiple cameras used in a given imaging system. This paper proposes a structured light scanning technique for directly solving the difficult multiframe correspondence problem across any number of cameras without any searching or calibration. The technique consists of temporally encoding positional information of projector space and capturing the projected result with one or more fixed cameras. In contrast to traditional image-based approaches, the proposed technique does not rely on consistent textures across frames. Furthermore, it automatically determines visibility across all cameras in the system and scales linearly in computation with the number of cameras.