Student research opportunities
3D Reconstruction using multiple robots
Project Code: CECS_809
This project is available at the following levels:
Engn4200, Engn R&D, Honours, Summer Scholar, Masters, PhD
Supervisors:
Dr Jon KimDr Hongdong Li
Outline:
3D surface reconstruction is an overlapping area between computer vision and robotics. Using multiple robots, 3D reconstruction process could be accelerated significantly in terms of computational time. Existing standard technique, called Structure From Motion (SFM), has some limitations in terms of scalability. For a single robot, the sequence of images is well aligned with the robot motion thus making SFM quite effective and useful. However, if the images are acquired by multiple robots, the motions between robots are not well defined. Motivated by this, the 3D structure could be directly obtained without resorting to the motion estimation which is typically ill-conditioned. Experiences on image processing and optimisation are essential for this project.
