Shape and texture of complex scenes using modern sensor technologies

of Auckland within the last four years. Rotating line cameras, designed and produced
at DLR Berlin, have been studied in particular for stereo viewing options and
optimization of potential depth layers in a stereo panorama. (A single 360 degree
panorama of the studied type is of about 1,200 Megapixel.) For example, it turns
out that four scene parameters and the desired disparity limit specify uniquely the off-axis
distance and viewing direction of the line camera. Furthermore,
the talk is also on texturing of 3D scans, obtained by laser range finders,
by mapping super-high resolution panoramas on triangulated surfaces (e.g.,
about academic challenges in the context of a recent total scan of castle
"Neuschwanstein" by a Berlin-based company). For example, approximations by
second order manifolds allow removal of noise, and traditional techniques in
computer graphics (e.g., bump mapping) provide then a "3D surface pattern"
again. The talk ends with a brief outlook on new opportunities defined by new
sensortechnologies, made available by DLR in recent years, and lists a few open problems
for future work.