MRI: Acquisition of a 3D object and motion capture system

该项目以获取基于摄影测量的3D获取系统(多摄像机计算机视觉3D捕获系统)作为研究工具，旨在实现在广泛的研究领域(计算机科学、信息科学、地理学、环境科学、工程学、美国研究、视觉艺术、历史、图书馆学等)轻松和可重复地收集数据。该系统由96个同步相机以及相关的闪光灯和投影灯组成，可以立即捕捉到从大约5厘米到几米的单个物体。基于照片的系统的灵活性允许相同的系统在广泛的尺度上捕捉高分辨率模型，并且对单个刚性物体、运动物体或使用主体、物体或软件的人同样有用，所有这些都不需要物体或对象的准备以及最少的设置或重新配置。扫描设备可能会有重大影响：关于辅助技术的项目承诺对残疾人产生持久的影响；大脑成像和基因组学项目承诺改善诊断健康；该项目还将在人文、理解和记录人工制品方面产生影响；数字图书馆项目将直接解决如何保存和参考这样的仪器产生的数据。此外，该项目将对学生的教育和培训产生影响。将容纳该仪器的中心有大量的本科生工作人员，他们将接触到最先进的仪器及其实现的研究。本科生助理将在中心工作人员的指导下，为仪器的人员配备提供支持。此外，该仪器将直接影响到几个班级，这些班级将能够使用本科生很少使用的物体和运动扫描设备。

This project, acquiring a photogrammetry-based 3D acquisition system (multi-camera computer vision 3D capture system) as a research instrument, aims to enable easy and repeatable collection of data across a wide range of research areas (Computer Science, Information Science, Geography, Environmental Science, Engineering, American Studies, Visual Arts, History, Library Science, etc.). The system consists of 96 synchronized cameras and associated flash and projection lights to capture a single object ranging from about 5 centimeters to several meters instantly. The flexibility of a photo-based system allows the same system to capture high resolution models over a wide range of scales, and to be equally useful for a single rigid object, an object in motion, or a person using a subject, object, or software, all with no object or subject preparation and minimal setup or reconfiguration.The scanning device is likely to have significant impacts: the projects on assistive technologies promise a lasting impact on disabled individuals; the brain imaging and genomics projects promise improvements on diagnostics health; the project will also have impact in the humanities, in understanding, and in documenting artifacts; and the digital library project will directly address how data generated by an instrument like this one can be preserved and referenced.Additionally, the project will have impacts on education and training of students. The center that will house the instrument has significant undergraduate staff who will be exposed to a state-of-the-art instrument and the research it enables. Undergraduate assistants, under the guidance of the center staff, will support the staffing for the instrument. Moreover, the instrument will impact several classes directly which will be able to use object and motion scanning equipment that is seldom available to undergraduates.