Best setup for facial modeling

[Linkreincarnate]

What I am looking for is the easiest system to get reliable 3d meshes
by scanning a person's head. I plan on printing them on a makerbot so
accuracy above .5 millimeters is not necessary and color information
can be discarded. I can get pretty close while scanning so distance
isn't an issue either. What diy setup will be the least amount of work
to go from 3d scan to 3d model? I already have a kinect, ps eye,
regular camera, wiimote, and a pico projector.

[Yongchang Wang]

Hi,

 

Hope the attached paper help.

 

 

regards,

Yongchang

--
3D Imaging Laboratory
http://vis.uky.edu/~yongchang/

[Kyle McDonald]

i've been doing a lot of scanning + printing with kinect and makerbot.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/5717369771/in/photostream/

here's an app that will generate the necessary stl files. osx-only right now:

https://github.com/downloads/kylemcdonald/Makerbot/KinectToStl.zip

kyle

[Linkreincarnate]

Yeah I just got that working tonight... I think I need a little more
accuracy (or at least less noise).. I wish I could use the kinect as
a camera and still do a laser sweep. Then I could use the laser data
to help calibrate the noise out of the kinect data and the kinect data
to fill in undersampled scan areas... If anyone wants to work on
coding this in c++ I can help...