Using IPhone Camera in Photomodeler for the 3D Survey of a Sculpture as Practice for Architecture's Students

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The introduction in the market of portable devices with digital cameras with enough resolution makes rethink to photogrammetric people use them to obtain a 3D model with acceptable precision for technical jobs. If we add that the practice most students have this kind of device makes photogrammetry can be available at any time by the rise in no time.

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Procedia Computer Science 25 ( 2013 ) 345 – 347
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Using IPhone Camera in Photomodeler for the 3D Survey of a
Sculpture as Practice for Architecture´s Students
A. Sanjuan Hernán-Péreza*, M. García Domíngueza, C. Roca Gonzáleza, A. Palomino
Martínb
aDto. Cartografia y Expresion Grafica en la Ingenieria, 35100, LasPalmas de Gran Canaria, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
bDto. Educacion Fisica, 35100, LasPalmas de GranCanaria, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Abstract
The introduction in the market of portable devices with digital cameras with enough resolution makes rethink to
photogrammetric people use them to obtain a 3D model with acceptable precision for technical jobs. If we add that the
practice most students have this kind of device makes photogrammetry can be available at any time by the rise in no time.
© 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the programme committee of the 2013 International Conference on
Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education.
Keywords: 3D Model; Photogrammetric; iPhone Camera
1. Introduction
Most students have some portable device with high resolution camera.
The iPhone 4 has a 5 megapixel camera which has applications to regulate or set the camera focus. This makes
us wonder if we can make photogrammetric work practices of the subject of Architectural Photogrammetry[1].
This paper describe a 3D survey of a sculpture simple and will be analyzed the accuracies acquired.
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E-mail address: alejandra.sanjuan@ulpgc.es
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2. Methodology
PhotoModeler software [2] is used:
Camera Calibration with PhotoModeler´s model grid printed on A0.
It create a 3D model of the sculpture chosen students have some portable device with high resolution
camera.
The camera and characteristics used in this project are available to the iPhone 4 (fig.1) and table 1[3].
Table 1. Characteristics iPhone 4
Feature iPhone 4
Nº pixels (mpixels) 5
Nominal focal (mm) 4.2
Fig. 1. iPhone 4
3. Camera calibration
The camera calibration was performed using the template available to the PhotoModeler attached to the
ground and photographed with the focus locked to infinity and canceling the flash, with the following results:
Focal Length: 3,8362mm
Principal point x: 2,0356mm, y: 1,4802mm
Format: width: 4,0571mm, height: 3,0299mm
Radial Distortion: K1:-0,01239, K2:0,003462
Tangential distortion: P1:-0,00027, P2:-0,00036
RMS:0,3053mm
The program as a warning we have photo covers only 46% when the recommended is 80%, which was
already foreseeable issue.
4. 3D Model
Photos were taken without a tripod around the sculpture at a similar distance, surrounding the sculpture,
making sure that all the points were visible from at least two photos.
The 3D model generation was performed with PhotoModeler, points, which introduced more error, is fixed
best. The greatest mistake was in almost a pixel and a half, quite acceptable (fig.2).

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Fig. 2. We refines the error better specifying certain points
Scaling performed with in situ measurement of a distance, and see the final residual (fig.3)
Fig. 3. Final residuals
Finally we give texture to surfaces and export the 3D model with the extension to go to work finally
Fig.4. 3D Model
5. Conclusions
Camera of a mobile device can be a tool interesting to obtain optimal results in the production of an
architectural 3D model with an accuracy of around one centimeter and using just a few hours to get the final
result.
References
[1] Smith MJ, Kokkas N. Assessing the photogrammetric potenctial of cameras in portable devices. International Archives of the
Photogrammetry, In: XXII ISPRS Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. XXXIX-B5,
2012, Melbourne, Australia
[2] PhotoModeler 2012. http://www.photomodeler.com
[3] iPhone 4. http://www.apple.com/