Smart3DCapture®

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Smart3DCapture

Why choose Smart3DCapture®?

No need for an expensive and/or complex scanning device, just your camera or smartphone is enough.

Quickly publish your 3D models on the web using Smart3DCapture free Viewer or share them on your preferred online 3D library.

Smart3DCapture Viewer is optimized for Smart3DCapture’s native S3C format, which handles level-of-detail, paging and streaming, thus allowing visualization of large amounts of 3D data with a low latency and a smooth frame rate.

You can publish 3D models in S3C format on a standard web server or on an online file storage web service / content delivery network for remote visualization with Smart3DCapture Viewer.

Smart3DCapture exploits the power of general purpose computation on graphics processing units (GPGPU), yielding 50-times faster processing.

Smart3DCapture features a unique 3D mesh optimization algorithm which ensures an optimal placement of 3D mesh vertices. Compared to other 3D photogrammetry solutions, Smart3DCapture recovers finer details and sharper edges, and creates fewer artefacts, e.g. at occlusion boundaries. 

In contrast with a 3D scanner, Smart3DCapture allows to reconstruct subjects of various scales, ranging from centimeters to kilometers, photographed from the ground (hand held, vehicle mounted) or from the air (UAS/UAV/drone, helicopter, aircraft, etc). There is no limit in the precision of the resulting 3D model, other than the resolution of the input photographs.

Smart3DCapture supports most common image formats (JPEG, TIFF, most RAW) and very different types of camera (DSLR, compact, smartphone, GoPro).

Whereas other 3D photogrammetry solutions on the market quickly hit memory limitations when input data size increases, the high end editions of Smart3DCapture include an elaborate tiling mechanism which can automatically split a massive 3D production into jobs not exceeding hardware capabilities. This tiling mechanism allows to seamlessly handle terabytes of input imagery.