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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2018
The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, and the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin, Dublin, IE;
Aljosa Smolic, Dublin, IE;
Rafael Pages, Dublin, IE;
Jan Ondrej, Dublin, IE;
Konstantinos Amplianitis, Dublin, IE;
David Monaghan, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
The method comprising providing a plurality of images of a scene captured by a plurality of image capturing devices (); providing silhouette information of at least one object in the scene (); generating a point cloud for the scene in 3D space using the plurality of images (); extracting an object point cloud from the generated point cloud, the object point cloud being a point cloud associated with the at least one object in the scene (); estimating a 3D shape volume of the at least one object from the silhouette information (); and combining the object point cloud and the shape volume of the at least one object to generate a three-dimensional model (). An apparatus for generating a 3D model, and a computer readable medium for generating the 3D model.