Background

The City Scanning Group of the MIT Computer Graphics Group is working on a system to automatically create 3D models of built environments from large datasets of images, each annotated with the absolute position and absolute orientation of the camera. Also available will be data on time of day, season of year and current weather conditions.


sample photos from the tech square dataset

From these pictures several different algorithms being developed by the group extract portions of 3D data from the scene. My algorithm will work to stitch together this varied data and fill in missing portions of buildings as necessary.

City Scanning Project Page