As part of Machine Vision lab, I had to create a program which you be able to create a 3d point cloud of a view of an object, using a webcam and a line laser.
The video shows the working of the softwares. The images are taken from a webcam while moving the camera.
For better results, the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the camera are also required the acquisition of which is not shown in the video. The intrinsic parameters can be found by using OpenCV program and a chessboard patterns. The extrinsic parameters are shown here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1js_P…
A preliminary result of the point cloud is shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhCq3x… The program currently is using a more refined line search method which reduces the bad results to a large extend.