LASER SCANNING

• E.G.: Konical/Minolta VIVID 9i 3D Laser Scanner, or VIVID 910
• Leica HDS3000 HDS3000: The first “surveyor-friendly” 3D scanner
• 3dlaserscanning: blog with practical information

STRUCTURED LIGHT

• Structured Light: Overview on Wikipedia
• MadMapper: popular commercial software for artists for space-scanning + projection mapping

IMAGE CORRELATION

• 123Catch: Free service by Autodesk
• “NEW LOW-COST 3D SCANNING TECHNIQUES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION” by Reznicek and Pavelka
• “Photo tourism: exploring photo collections in 3D” by Snavely, Seitz and Szeliski (2006, University of Washington/Microsoft Research).  see also this paper on comparison of techniques

KINECT

• ReconstructMe: free-hand walk-around model space
• KinectFusion: Microsoft solution (see also this demo on YouTube)
• RGBDSLAM: point clouds from RGBD (see also this evaluation paper/PowerPoint)

RESOURCES

• 3d Scanning in Wikipedia
• Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies: Documentation of numerous historic projects/sites