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Hand Held 3D Scanning for Cultural Heritage: Experimenting Low Cost Structure Sensor Scan.
In the last years 3D scanning has become an important resource in many fields, in particular it has
played a key role in study and preservation of Cultural Heritage. Moreover today, thanks to the miniaturization
of electronic components, it has been possible produce a new category of 3D scanners, also
known as handheld scanners. Handheld scanners combine a relatively low cost with the advantage of
the portability. The aim of this chapter is two-fold: first, a survey about the most recent 3D handheld
scanners is presented. As second, a study about the possibility to employ the handheld scanners in the
field of Cultural Heritage is conducted. In this investigation, a doorway of the Benedictine Monastery
of Catania, has been used as study case for a comparison between stationary Time of Flight scanner,
photogrammetry-based 3D reconstruction and handheld scanning. The study is completed by an evaluation
of the meshes quality obtained with the three different kinds of technology and a 3D modeling
reproduction of the case-study doorway
Low Cost Handheld 3D Scanning for Architectural Elements Acquisition
3D scanning has gone a long way since its first appearance in cultural heritage digitization and modeling. In the recent years
some new low cost, fast, accurate emerging technologies are flooding the market. Envisioning the massive use of these cheap
and easy to use devices in the next years, it is crucial to explore the possible fields of application and to test their effectiveness
in terms of easiness of 3D data collection, processing, mesh resolution and metric accuracy against the size and features of the
objects. In this study we focus the attention on one emerging technology, the Structure Sensor device, in order to verify a 3D
pipeline acquisition on an architectural element and its details. The methodological approach is thought to define a pipeline of
3D acquisition exploiting low cost and open source technologies and foresees the assessment of this procedure in comparison
with data obtained by a Time of Flight device.
Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation—Line and
curve generatio