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Qi Pan

3rd Year PhD student supervised by Dr Tom Drummond
in the Division of Information Engineering
at Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Also member and MCR president of Fitzwilliam College.

Résumé [pdf] [html]

News

16/Dec/2009 - Uploaded some models from the system - more will be added soon as the code is now in place. [Click here to download (13.5Mb)]

16/Dec/2009 - I've moved to a new mailing list - I will duplicate emails to both the previous and current list

12/Dec/2009 - The mailing list seems to be broken at the moment for new subscribers - I've emailed the admins so hopefully it will be working again soon.

12/Nov/2009 - In a few months time when code porting (to new library versions) is complete, a Linux-based demo of ProFORMA should be released. This will be followed by a windows based demo

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Publications (Peer-Reviewed)
	ProFORMA: Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond Proc. BMVC'09, September 2009, London, UK The generation of 3D models is very useful for many computer vision applications. This paper introduces ProFORMA, a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user's hand. Partial models are created very rapidly and displayed to the user to aid view planning, as well as used by the system to robustly track the object pose. The system works by calculating the Delaunay tetrahedralisation of a point cloud obtained from on-line structure from motion estimation which is then carved using a recursive and probabilistic algorithm to rapidly obtain the surface mesh. [More] Winner of ISMAR 2009 Best Demo Prize [2009 BMVC Paper (6.3MB)] [BibTeX] Real-time system video (Xvid) [High Quality (42MB)] Article about ProFORMA in Futura-Sciences Printed article about ProFORMA in November 2009 issue of Sciences et Avenir, page 30 In Latin, "pro forma" means "for shape", which is the inspiration behind the system name.

Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

ProFORMA: Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition
Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond
Proc. BMVC'09, September 2009, London, UK

The generation of 3D models is very useful for many computer vision applications. This paper introduces ProFORMA, a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user's hand. Partial models are created very rapidly and displayed to the user to aid view planning, as well as used by the system to robustly track the object pose. The system works by calculating the Delaunay tetrahedralisation of a point cloud obtained from on-line structure from motion estimation which is then carved using a recursive and probabilistic algorithm to rapidly obtain the surface mesh. [More]

Winner of ISMAR 2009 Best Demo Prize

[2009 BMVC Paper (6.3MB)] [BibTeX]
Real-time system video (Xvid) [High Quality (42MB)]

Article about ProFORMA in Futura-Sciences

Printed article about ProFORMA in November 2009 issue of Sciences et Avenir, page 30

In Latin, "pro forma" means "for shape", which is the inspiration behind the system name.


	Interactive Model Reconstruction with User Guidance Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond Proc. ISMAR'09, October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA The ability to generate models rapidly allows user interactivity during on-line 3D reconstruction. This paper looks at how the user can be guided to provide the required views to generate a complete textured model of an object. [More] [2009 ISMAR (2.4MB)] [Longer Version (5.6MB)] [Poster (1.9MB)] Real-time system video (Xvid) [High Quality (36MB)] [Low Quality (18MB)]

Interactive Model Reconstruction with User Guidance
Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond
Proc. ISMAR'09, October 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA

The ability to generate models rapidly allows user interactivity during on-line 3D reconstruction. This paper looks at how the user can be guided to provide the required views to generate a complete textured model of an object. [More]

[2009 ISMAR (2.4MB)] [Longer Version (5.6MB)] [Poster (1.9MB)]
Real-time system video (Xvid) [High Quality (36MB)] [Low Quality (18MB)]

Presentations
	On-line Interactive Model Reconstruction Qi Pan 30 Minute Presentation WARM'09 Zip file [Powerpoint slides and videos (47Mb)] Presentation Slides [Office 2007 - .pptx (4MB)] [Office 2005 - .ppt (5MB)] Videos (Xvid) [Simple Delaunay Point Carving (27Mb)] [Probabilistic Delaunay Point Carving (2Mb)] [Real-time Reconstruction Video (13.5Mb)]

Contact Information

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Address:	Department of Engineering. University of Cambridge Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ
Telephone:	+44 1223 332 754
Fax:	+44 1223 332 662

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