Haptic Texturing based on Real-World Samples

Haptic texturing allows for small scale surface features to be represented in haptic rendering applications. Medical, entertainment, multimedia, and e-commerce applications all stand to benefit from the display of realistic haptic textures. Therefore, acquiring texture from real-world objects is of particular importance for the realistic modeling of objects in virtual environment and other hapto-visual applications. In previous work, we presented a cost-effective system for acquiring haptic surface properties (texture and compliance) using a mobile touch probe and visual tracker. In this paper, we discuss how textures generated by our system may be registered with object geometry and integrated as part of the standard 3D model acquisition pipeline.