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SCENECT 5.2 Manual | March 2013
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1
1.1. System Requirements ..................................................................................................................... 2
1.2. Sensor Fundamentals ...................................................................................................................... 3
1.3. Installing the Software ..................................................................................................................... 3
1.4. Licensing the Software .................................................................................................................... 4
2. Recording ................................................................................................................................................ 6
2.1. Starting SCENECT ............................................................................................................................. 6
2.2. Opening a Scan Project ................................................................................................................. 6
2.3. The SCENECT Toolbar and Menu ................................................................................................... 7
2.4. Live Tracking .................................................................................................................................... 9
2.4.1. Settings ............................................................................................................................................ 9
2.4.2. Tracking ......................................................................................................................................... 12
2.5. Tracking Frames from Recorded Video Files ............................................................................. 15
2.5.1. Settings .......................................................................................................................................... 15
2.5.2. Tracking from File ......................................................................................................................... 15
2.6. Workspace Structure..................................................................................................................... 16
3. Post Processing ..................................................................................................................................... 17
3.1. Viewing the Recorded Results ..................................................................................................... 17
3.1.1. Viewing Frames with the Planar View and the Quick View ................................................ 17
3.1.2. Viewing Scan Points with the 3D View .................................................................................... 18
3.2. Applying Additional Registration Steps to the Frames of a Sequence ................................... 19
3.3. Color Smoothing ............................................................................................................................ 20
3.4. Deleting Scan Points ..................................................................................................................... 21
3.5. Registering Sequences ................................................................................................................. 22
3.5.1. Registration with Reference Objects ....................................................................................... 23
3.5.2. Correspondence View ............................................................................................................... 30
3.6. Creating a Project Point Cloud .................................................................................................... 33
3.7. Analyzing the Scanning Results ................................................................................................... 35
3.8. Exporting ........................................................................................................................................ 35
4. Calibrating the Sensor ......................................................................................................................... 36
5. Hints & Tips ............................................................................................................................................. 37
Software License Agreement ..................................................................................................................... i
Implementation Notes ................................................................................................................................ii
Apache .....................................................................................................................................................ii
paintlib Library ........................................................................................................................................ iii
LibTIFF Library .......................................................................................................................................... iii
JPEG Library ............................................................................................................................................ iii
KissFFT Library ......................................................................................................................................... iv
Open Source Computer Vision Library ............................................................................................... iv
GPL (GNU General Public License) ..................................................................................................... iv
LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) ......................................................................................... x
GEOTRANS ..............................................................................................................................................xii
Trademarks.................................................................................................................................................xii
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