Publications
CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL) AirPlanes: A DIY Modeling System Using Mobile VSLAM for Indoor Space
Taiga Nishiyama (Ritsumeikan University), Daichi Yoshikawa (Ritsumeikan University), Nobuhiko Nishio (Ritsumeikan University), Kota Tsubouchi
The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2020)
June 19, 2020
3D space modeling is crucial for AR/VR applications and navigation services in indoor environments. However, the conventional approaches require specialized devices, such as cameras, depth sensors combined with structured-light/laser pointers, 3D laser scanners, and so on. The requirements of specialized devices are potential barriers to the popularization of 3D space modeling. This paper proposes a brand new "DIY" 3D space modeling system, called "AirPlanes". AirPlanes utilizes VSLAM technology, which has become available for mobile OS'es and generates planes in a 3D space model without the need for any proprietary sensors. The system uses a smartphone and a laser pointer and takes a laser-based active-sensing approach to plane-model generation integrated with VSLAM. The device is a “do-it-yourself” one combining a smartphone and off-the-shelf laser pointer. It estimates the projected laser dot's world coordinates by triangulation in real time. Through integration with VSLAM-based self-positioning, it makes 3D plane modeling possible, even for flat and monotone walls that current feature-point-based VSLAM recognition technology cannot measure.
Paper :
AirPlanes: A DIY Modeling System Using Mobile VSLAM for Indoor Space
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