Patent ID: 6750873
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method for constructing a digital model of an object, comprising steps of:inputting surface scan data from a plurality of surface scans, the surface scan data having a first resolution and representing the object from a plurality of viewpoints; inputting image data having a second, higher resolution for representing the object from the plurality of viewpoints; iteratively registering the surface scan data from the plurality of viewpoints using the image data; reconstructing substantially seamless surface texture data for the model using weight maps of the image data at a plurality of surface points; integrating said range data into a mesh representation of the object; partitioning the mesh representation into a set of height-field patches; and wherein said step of reconstructing substantially seamless surface texture comprises a step of reconstructing new surface textures by projecting intensity maps onto the height-field patches and combining the best data available at each point using the weights.