MeshLab and Arc3D : photo-reconstruction and processing 3D meshes

The paper presents a complete free software pipeline for the 3D digital acquisition of Cultural Heritage assets based on the use of standard photographic equipment. The presented solution makes use of two main tools: Arc3D and MeshLab. Arc3D is a web based reconstruction service that using computer vision techniques are used to vision technique based on the automatic matching of image features compute for each photo a depth map. MeshLab is a tool that allow to import and process these range maps in order to obtain a ready to use 3D model. Through the combined use of these two systems it is possible to digitally acquire CH artifacts and monuments in affordable way.

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