3-D Modeling of dynamic remote environments employing the images from cell-phone cameras and a communication network

This paper describes a system for 3-D modeling of dynamic remote environments employing the images provided from cell-phone cameras and a communication network. In the system, we employ two cell-phones to acquire images. Each image is sent to a lab by an e-mail and employed for the 3-D modeling. For the algorithm of 3-D recovery, we employ a mobile stereo vision method, since this method is based on the factorization method and a steady solution can be expected. In the experiment, we tested the influence of the restoration error by using two cell-phones and obtained an excellent result.