Self-organizing rolling shutter camera arrays for low-cost, accurate volumetric capture workflows

An apparatus comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to:
• receive images from a set of cameras that are positioned in a plurality of levels around one or more objects, wherein the set of cameras are positioned at a same orientation and each image is captured by a rolling shutter and associated with a position and orientation of a corresponding camera from the set of cameras;
• for each level of cameras:
• perform feature extraction on a subset of the images corresponding to the level to identify features of one or more objects;
• match extracted features between the subset of the images;
• and
• generate a three-dimensional pointcloud based on the position and orientation of corresponding cameras and matched extracted features;
• and
• merge the three-dimensional pointcloud for each level of the cameras to form a three-dimensional volumetric model of one or more objects.

Software encoded in one or more computer-readable media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed is operable to:

• receive images from a set of cameras that are positioned in a plurality of levels around one or more objects, wherein the set of cameras are positioned at a same orientation and each image is captured by a rolling shutter and associated with a position and orientation of a corresponding camera from the set of cameras;
• for each level of cameras:
• perform feature extraction on a subset of the images corresponding to the level to identify features of one or more objects;
• match extracted features between the subset of the images;
• and
• generate a three-dimensional pointcloud based on the position and orientation of corresponding cameras and matched extracted features;
• and
• merge the three-dimensional pointcloud for each level of the cameras to form a three-dimensional volumetric model of one or more objects.