CUHK CSE Kinect Group

Different 3D reconstruction approaches

1. Oriented Point Cloud (i.e., point cloud and normal vectors) + Poisson Reconstruction
2. Aligned range image + Truncated Signed Distance Function
3. Aligned image for the silhouette + Space-carving (convex object only)
   1. A small modification with range image could allow concave objects

Literature survey: 3D reconstruction with Kinect

KinectFusion (http://research.microsoft.com/jump/152815)

Extensions of KinectFusion: for moving volume or larger scale

Kintinuous (www.cs.nuim.ie/research/vision/data/rgbd2012/)

Extensions of KinectFusion: for multiple Kinect

(More importantly it also combines element from the Shake'n'Sense paper: Shake'n'sense: reducing interference for overlapping structured light depth cameras http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/171706/shake'n'Sense.pdf

Publicly available reconstruction tools with Kinect

Pending construction...on Kinect's programming interfaces