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Category Archives: Software
Leica BLK360 – Here’s How it Works
Popular YouTuber and trained cinematographer Matt Workman has created a very practical and easy to understand video about Leica Geosystems BLK360. Bottom line – he thinks the BLK 360 has many applications in the film industry, particularly for pre-production . … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, art, Indoor Mapping, Sensors, Software, Technology
Tagged BLK360, Leica Geosystems, Matt Workman, YouTube
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Rice Students Develop Generic Drone Software
A team of six Rice University electrical and computer engineering students have developed the hardware and software necessary to coordinate sensor-carrying drones. They have used relatively inexpensive drone components as the platform for demonstrating their software capability. “The system is … Continue reading
A New Common Language for Feature Extraction – OpenLSEF
A fresh initiative to develop a common language for extracting information from a 3D point cloud is being referred to as OpenLSEF. The ASPRS is hosting a free webinar to explain this effort on April 27, 2018 at 12 PM … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Data, Open Source, Orgs, Software, Standards, The Industry
Tagged ASPRS, common language, feature extraction, Michael Olsen, OpenLSEF
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Driverless Vehicle Testing Programs are Flawed
In an excellent article in Wired the author points out the mistakes being made in the design and execution of testing programs for self-driving vehicles. He quotes Martyn Thomas CBE, professor of information technology at Gresham College and fellow of … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, AI, artifical perception, Autonomous vehicles, Consumer, Research, Software, Standards
Tagged Martyn Thomas, Wired
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Pix4D Announces Agricultural Product – Pix4Dfields
Pix4D recently announced Pix4Dfields, its first fully dedicated product for agriculture. A beta program is now open. The vision for the new product is “To give fast and accurate maps while in the field, with a simple yet powerful interface … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Agriculture, Business Development, Mapping, remote sensing, Software, UAS, UAVs
Tagged drones, Pix4D, Pix4Dfields
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Velocity Sensitive Lidar
Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, based in (that high tech hotbed of fly fishing) Bozeman, MT has just received $18 million in series B financing to scale their frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar and just as importantly the artificial perception software … Continue reading
VirtualGrid Releases VRMesh v10.0
In many cases what people are looking for are surfaces, such as pavement, curb, sidewalk not millions of random 3D points. Manually fitting a surface to a point cloud requires experience and time. VirtualGrid has been working on automating the … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Construction, Data, Software
Tagged break line, polygonal surface, triangular mesh, VirtualGrid, VRMesh
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Scale API Follow Up
Digital Journal recently interviewed Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale API. When asked about the idea behind creating the API Wang responded: “The largest bottleneck for the development of high-performing perception algorithms … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Modeling, Autonomous vehicles, Business Development, Data, Mapping, Sensors, Software
Tagged Scale API. API
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Topcon Acquires ClearEdge3D
TOKYO, Japan – February 20, 2018 – Topcon Corporation, a world leader in positioning instruments for survey and construction, through its American subsidiary, has acquired all the outstanding shares of ClearEdge3D, Inc., a recognized technology leader in the engineering and … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Software
Tagged ClearEdge3D, EdgeWise, feature extraction, Topcon, Verity
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Sensor Fusion Annotation
Are you looking for a way to jump start your machine learning perception project? Scale claims to deliver a sensor independent API that provides a number of powerful object recognition functions. It works with cameras, lidar and radar to accelerate … Continue reading