ProFORMA, Feature based Online Rapid Model Acquisition

Qi Pan, Gerhard Reitmayr and Tom Drummond in the Division of Information Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department developed this little bit of craziness called ProFORMA. ProFORMA is a system designed to enable on-line reconstruction of textured 3D objects rotated by a user’s hand- holy crap! ProFORMA was a winner of ISMAR Best Demo Prize of 2009. For all you big-heads and nerdos out there, you can find the whitepaper here, describing that the system works by calculating the Delaunay tetrahedralisation of a point cloud that is obtained from on-line structure from estimation of motion which is then carved using a recursive and probabilistic algorithm to rapidly grab the surface mesh. yep, more nerdiness can be found here.