# Any suggestions for image sensor/camera with image stitching

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** build\
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155 "2020-08-25T13:20:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Satish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Satish](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Satish)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155/1 "2020-08-25T13:20:42Z")

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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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**Author:** ![adamrankin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/adamrankin/32/155_2.png) [@adamrankin](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/adamrankin)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155/2 "2020-08-25T13:34:33Z")

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

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155/3 "2020-08-26T04:30:13Z")

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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](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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**Author:** ![Satish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Satish](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Satish)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155/4 "2020-08-28T01:50:16Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Satish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Satish](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Satish)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/any-suggestions-for-image-sensor-camera-with-image-stitching/13155/5 "2020-08-28T01:51:08Z")

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Thank you. I will explore this.