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This paper reports on the development of C3D, a computer-based product for constructing 3-D surface models of real world 3-D objects, e.g. a model of a human face, from stereo image pairs. C3D is a GUI-based computer program that converts the implicit 3-D information contained within the stereo image pair into an explicit 3-D surface model in a standard CAD file format. Hence, C3D extracts automatically the 3-D information from a stereo pair of images which have been frame-grabbed (digitised) into a computer and then builds a 3-D surface model. This surface model can then be edited using standard CAD packages or manipulated within virtual reality environments in the usual way.
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Siebert, J.P., Urquhart, C.W. (1995). C3D™: a Novel Vision-Based 3-D Data Acquisition System. In: Paker, Y., Wilbur, S. (eds) Image Processing for Broadcast and Video Production. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3035-2_14
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