Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Fl Inc.

Victor Palmer

Angel Ai Jun Lam

Vu Tran

Brian Webb

Brian Keller

Systems and methods are disclosed with associated techniques for ensuring that structures are fully imaged, which may permit individuals to utilize mobile computing devices to record imagery of structures for the purpose of documenting their presence, size, location, and the like. As digital images are captured by a computing device, those digital images may be presented in the form of a video feed on a display of the computing device. One or more digital elements can then be overlaid on the video feed. To incentivize a user to move the computing device in a predetermined manner by guided live feedback, the appearance of these digital elements may be manipulated based on movements of the computing device.

Provoking movement of computing devices with augmented reality features

Embodiments of the disclosed technology are directed to using pixel data from two or images of the same real-world region to determine the orientation of substantially planar surfaces in those images. The disclosed technology may be utilized to generate positions and/or orientations of planar surfaces based on multiple 2D images of the planar surface. Implementations can include modeling a planar surface, which can include capturing at least two images (from corresponding different, known positions), determining, from the images, regions that correspond to substantially the same portion of the real-world planar surface, computing a similarity metric for the two regions, and then determining the orientation of the planar surface based on maximizing the similarity metric over various different regions from the images. The described embodiments provide improvements in speed and accuracy compared to existing procedures and are able to find planar surfaces in both low-texture environments and occluded environments.

Modeling planar surfaces using direct plane fitting

Systems and methods for creating a two-dimensional orthographic map that models an environment using images captured with a camera and an augmented reality (AR) engine. The interior has at least one object with one or more planes that are parallel to each other. A method can include annotating the at least one image with a plurality of horizontal lines or vertical lines, each horizontal line or vertical line corresponding to an edge of the at least one object in at least one of the one or more planes, determining, an orientation of a projection plane that is parallel to each of the one or more planes, estimating an offset for each of the one or more planes relative to the projection plane, and rendering, based on the offset for each of the one or more planes, a two-dimensional orthographic map that models the interior environment.

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Victor Palmer