Acute3D, known for its software solutions for producing high-resolution 3D models from simple photographs, has launched a no-cost, fully functional, time-unlimited edition of its Smart3DCapture solution. This edition enables everyone to turn simple photographs into 3D models that can be published on the internet or printed in 3D. 
Following the success of 123D Catch, the cloud-based 3D reconstruction service from Autodesk which embeds the Smart3DCapture technology at its very heart and reported over 6 million users last September, Acute3D decided to offer a specific edition to every individual or professional willing to 3D scan their world (people, objects, indoor or outdoor scenes) with their camera or smartphone, without sending their photos over internet.
The principle of Smart3DCapture is to analyse several photographs of a static subject, taken from different viewpoints, and to automatically detect pixels corresponding to a same physical point. From many such correspondences, relative orientations of photos and accurate 3D shape of the scene can be inferred.
Smart3DCapture solves this problem with photogrammetry, computer vision and computational geometry algorithms fulfilling industrial-quality requirements in terms of precision, scalability, efficiency, usage, robustness and interoperability.
Source: GIM International