Abstract
While techniques of 3D-Graphics to visualize 3D-shape has increasingly come into use in ordinary PC-environment, emerging issue is how to effectively acquire the information of 3D-shape as the input. In this paper we propose a new PC application that computes 3D-shape of an object or a scene. The algorithm we have employed for the shape recovery is based on the stereo vision technique and the developed system is kept rather simple without requiring a special tool. We describe our prototype system and its performance examined through experiments. Particularly, we show that the system works on a smooth surface shape that is usually difficult to input for conventional CAD systems.
