IMAGING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES, THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

An imaging apparatus generates a 3D model using a photographed image of a subject and generates a 3D image based on the 3D model. When a corresponding point corresponding to a point forming the 3D model does not form a 3D model generated using a photographed image photographed at a different photographing position, the imaging apparatus determines that the point is noise, and removes the point determined as noise from the 3D model. The imaging apparatus generates a 3D image based on the 3D model from which the point determined as noise is removed.

主权项

1. A 3D model generating device comprising:
a generator that generates a 3D model of a subject using an image of the subject; an estimating unit that estimates a photographing direction of an imaging unit at a time of photographing of the image based on a point forming the 3D model generated by the generator; and a removing unit that removes a 3D model generated by using an image that is photographed at an earlier photographing time than that of an image used to generate another 3D model, among 3D models having a smaller difference in the photographing direction than a predetermined value.