Patent ID: 8436853

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining, by a computing device, a feature-based score, wherein the feature-based score is based on one or more features of an object including geometry of the object; determining a number of respective images of each set of images of a plurality of sets of images to be captured for the object, and angles from which the respective images are to be captured, based at least on the feature-based score; receiving, at the computing device, the respective images of each set of images of the plurality of sets of images of the object; determining, by the computing device, for each set of images of the plurality of sets of images, a respective image-based score based on a prospective three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the object to be generated by a merged output of that set of images; determining a respective ranking for each set of images of the plurality of sets of images based on the respective image-based score; and selecting a set of images of the plurality of sets of images based on the respective ranking.