New 3D scanner by Effortless 3D

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e3dRich wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:24 pm
Jason Warren wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:28 am Hi Richard, will you and the scanner be at InterGEO?
Hi Jason, yes the prototype and I will be at InterGEO, although due to other commitments I'm only able to make it on the 27th unfortunately.
Will you be at a specific booth?
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dhirota wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:56 pm
e3dRich wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:24 pm
Jason Warren wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:28 am Hi Richard, will you and the scanner be at InterGEO?
Hi Jason, yes the prototype and I will be at InterGEO, although due to other commitments I'm only able to make it on the 27th unfortunately.
Will you be at a specific booth?
I won't but if you send me a message we can try and organise a convenient time and place to meet up.
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Hi Richard,
Was the above image taken with the E3D?
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Is this a laser scanner ? Might sound like a dumb question, but recently we've had a number of RGB-D based scanners, which coupled with a decent SLAM algorhythm, loop closure and a regular camera, can do some nice, coloured scans.

Of course, I'm not talking about GeoSlam or Kaarta scanners, since those are clearly laser scanners, based on a Velodyne Puck-Lite or Hokuyo modules, all under 7K, or even less, coupled with a HDR camera (which is optional).
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Jason Warren wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:56 pm Hi Richard,
Was the above image taken with the E3D?
Hi Jason,
It was - it's the low resolution panorama generated by the scanner for colouring the point cloud.

Below is the high-resolution panorama from the same scan (although this is still only 1/3 our max resolution)

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Attreyu wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:08 pm Is this a laser scanner ?
Hi,
It is yes - we're using lidar technology rather than structured-light RGB-D sensors
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SCCS HDS wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2017 8:34 am
james.still wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2017 2:46 pm thanks for the post! Looks interesting and looking forward to some sample data.
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No problem with the post, we do try to be the first to bring you all the latest laser scanning news from around the world.

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You may already be thinking about this, but since there seems to be a significant focus on HDR imaging I'll take this opportunity to request the ability to get panoramas out as true scene-linear floating point images rather than the dumbed-down tone-mapped jpgs we usually get out of scanners. If you exported the HDRs as .exr files you could even include the geometry data as additional channels. I can think of a few really interesting applications for that type of data package.
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Hi Jed, that's a great idea. In the short term we'll be sticking to tone-mapped jpegs but we can look to generate true scene-linear floating point images in future software updates.
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Anyone see it in the Intergeo ? Thoughts ?
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Hi all,

As promised, here is some sample data from the E3D prototype device - apologies in the delay getting this out to you all. The data consists of 5 scans captured in a hotel room, it's in binary .ply format as exported by CloudCompare.

You can download the file from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/im4mwdw29vbih ... s.ply?dl=0
Or view it online at Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/69IoS

Let me know what you make of the data.

Thanks,
Richard
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