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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2020
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Eric Michael Gros, Waukesha, WI (US);
Junli Ping, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Arpit Jain, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ming-Ching Chang, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Peter Henry Tu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present approach relates to the use of a point cloud of an object to initialize or seed a space carving technique used to generate a 3D model of the object. In one implementation, feature matching is performed on 2D images, with matched features constituting the points of a point cloud model. The point cloud generated in this manner, is one input of a foreground/background segmentation algorithm, which generates a set of segmented 2D images used by a space carving routine to generate a 3D model of the object.