Any suggestions for image sensor/camera with image stitching

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Hello Slicers,

We are looking for a compact camera sensor for a hand held 3D scanning device. User of the device may not be able to scan the entire object in one scan and hence need build a functionality to stitch these scanned videos together to get the complete image. Any experience with such requirements? Do cameras come with such image stitching features? Any suggestions?

Regards,
Satish

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Depending on your budget the Artec 3D scanners have this functionality.

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If you need accurate and robust scanning then I would recommend to get an Artec Eva scanner for about $20k. If you don’t need just surface shape, not color, then you can buy an Artec Eva Light for about $10k.

If you need something really cheap then you can just buy an Intel RealSense camera for 150 and use a stitching software. We used a commercial software (the license was a few k) and it worked OK, but there may be cheaper/free ones - maybe this one: https://www.lips-hci.com/lipscan (I haven’t tried it, so it would be great if you could try it and report back how well it works).

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Thank you Andras. Very useful. I have reached out to Lipscan and will update if I get to experience their expertise/service.

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Thank you. I will explore this.