微软革命性App能把智能手机变成高质量3D扫描仪
| 在过去两年里，用于3D打印的桌面型3D扫描产品发展非常迅速。就在几年前，要购买一台能够获得详细3D扫描效果的机器还相当昂贵，而且，就算是最好的消费级3D扫描仪的扫描效果都差强人意。 到现在，甚至连手机都能进行3D扫描了。不久前谷歌发布了其具有3D扫描功能的Project Tango智能手机。如今，微软研究实验室也开发出了一款新的智能手机app，足以颠覆3D扫描和3D打印领域。
这款App名为MobileFusion，它可以安装在几乎任何智能手机上，用于创建任何对象的可打印3D模型，而且不需要任何额外的硬件。是的，您没听错，这款App只需要智能手机上的摄像头和处理器就能够生成对象的3D模型。
“这这个系统能够让我们捕获类似照片的东西，但它是一个完整的3D对象。”Peter Ondruska解释说。他是一位博士研究生，就读于牛津大学，目前在微软研究院实习参与了该项目。 这款App在使用时甚至不需要一个互联网连接，这使得它对于任何对3D设计和3D打印感兴趣的人都非常有吸引力。同时，它也为那些只想以三维形式分享和保存自己喜欢的时刻的消费者提供了非常经济和完美的解决方案。它允许科学家在现场捕获对象、建筑物和三维性质的东西，而不需要复杂的硬件或互联网连接。
据天工社了解，MobileFusion将在今年10月初的混合和增强现实国际研讨会上正式发布，并可能被证明是朝着使我们这个星球数字化迈出的重要一步。想想吧，任何人都能下载一个App，然后很方便地将他看到的东西以数字化的形式3D复制出来，这一事实将会加速3D打印机进入主流，同时对于增强现实和虚拟现实应用也会有很大的帮助。
负责该项目是两名经验丰富的程序员：Shahram Izadi和Pushmeet Kohli，他们此前也开发过一个相近的软件，名为 Kinect Fusion。该软件能够让人创造出自己的家、办公室、甚至其他人的3D模型。然而，不同于MobileFusion的是，这款软件需要一台PC及其它基于硬件的小工具才能工作。而MobileFusion是他们研究的一个新阶段。两位程序员称，现在的手机已经成为强大到足以运行此类系统。
该App的工作方式是，它使用一个复杂的算法，通过智能电话的摄像头，以类似人眼的方式采集多个图像。不过前该系统仍然处于发展阶段，有希望很快就能拥有几乎所有的智能手机。 “现有的方法只能在手机长产生基于点云的3D模型，有的可能还需要通过云计算进行处理。而我们的混合GPU / CPU线程技术则与之完全不同，它直接在设备上创建一个连接的3D表面模型。”研究人员解释说，“我们相信这种技术，将会使更多的人接触到3D，使现实世界的3D化变得真正普及。”
正如您能够在下面的视频中看到的那样，这个系统表现得似乎非常出色。
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Microsoft's MobileFusion app makes 3D scans, but it may never come to marketApparently Microsoft's researchers get to have all the fun.
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Who needs a Microsoft Kinect when your phone’s camera can do the job? Microsoft Research said Monday it's working on a technology called MobileFusion for the Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms that will allow users to pan a smartphone camera slowly around a 3D object, creating a 3D model that they can later print. “The great starting point was to take a sensor that everyone has in their pocket, which is the camera you have on your mobile phone,” said Shahram Izadi, a principal researcher on the project. Why this matters: MobileFusion is designed for a single purpose: 3D printing. The idea, according to the researchers, is for people to bring a smartphone into a museum, on a hike, or somewhere else and scan a 3D memento into their phone for later printing. The only catch right now is that the MobileFusion research is... well, research: Microsoft says it doesn’t have any plans to develop the technology into a full-fledged app.
The (slow) rise of 3D scanning appsMicrosoft began promoting the use of 3D depth cameras with its PCs through its Windows Hello login process, which uses an embedded RealSense 3D camera from Intel to recognize a user's face. The Hello technology is based upon the Microsoft Kinect camera, whch was originally designed for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Xbox One game consoles. Kinect recognizes users by comparing them to a 3D object that the camera has created and stored. Microsoft isn’t anywhere close to being the first organization to talk about 3D scanning using a mobile phone. In 2013, ETH Zurich made the exact same promise, claiming they were working to release an app. (To date, they have not.)  AutoDesk’s 123DCapture app allows you to create your own 3D scans. Several apps have also promised that they can stick two or more 2D pictures of an object into a 3D model. Two that are worth noting include the free 123DCatch app from Autodesk, for both iOS and Android; and Shapematic, a $0.99 iOS app that also turns a few 3D snaps into a 3D object. (Trimensional, an iOS app, also will capture a 3D object, but it seems designed mainly for fun, not printing.) As far as we can tell, no developer has created a 3D scanner app for Windows Phone. Note that what Microsoft is talking about involves slowly panning a camera around an object, essentially creating a video that the MobileFusion technology can transform into an image. The closest thing we have to that today is the 3D Capture tool you can use with HP's imaging-focused Sprout PC, which takes a bunch of photos from different angles and stitches them together. Unless someone creates a quality app that can do this, we’ll still be waiting. |
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