RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
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Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#2Tried this app out a few days ago. The measurements in it are surprisingly good. I was finding it about ~10% out at most.
All in all, it is a very good (FREE!) app that can be used to get a decent idea of what might be needed in home renovation.
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#3This seems to be in the neighborhood of Johnny Lee's thinking in Project Tango: https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/ ... a lot of the information collected by the increasingly precise sensors is going to allow for next level of... something... I think Project Tango is an example of not knowing what the future is in sensing and looking for network effects to fill in the gap.
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#4Tried this app out a few days ago. The measurements in it are surprisingly good. I was finding it about ~10% out at most. All in all, it is a very good (FREE!) app that can be used to get a decent idea of what might be needed in home renovation.
I had the opposite experience. It seemed really finicky about how smoothlyI had to move my tablet from one wall to the next .
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#5AppStore link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roomscan-app-that-draws-floo...
Couldn't find it on my brief scan of the article.
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#6Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren't there are apps that do this? By the time I've 'scanned' a room the way it's shown in the article, and if that method doesn't even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, and is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I've measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#7Could anyone possibly shed some light on what is used for measurement? gyro?
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#8Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren't there are apps that do this? By the time I've 'scanned' a room the way it's shown in the article, and if that method doesn't even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, and is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I've measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.
I don't think we're quite at the point where a mobile CPU would be able to pull this off, however filming and uploading a well shot video to a server for further processing should be a workable way to make a full model. I think a big challenge there is a several-minute feedback loop to learn if it worked and if you need to try it again.
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#9Quite disappointed - was hoping this was done through computer vision. Aren't there are apps that do this? By the time I've 'scanned' a room the way it's shown in the article, and if that method doesn't even give me heights, doors, windows and outlets, and is only accurate to within half a foot - by that time I've measured it with my laser tape measure 3 times over.
And your laser tape translates those measurements into a floorplan that's digitally sharable?
Re: RoomScan: Get a Floor Plan in Minutes Just By Walking Around the Room
#10Could anyone possibly shed some light on what is used for measurement? gyro?
Yes probably, but I would be surprised if it isn't also integrating over the accelerometers' output. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system.