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Michael Beyeler
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Michael Beyeler is a postdoctoral fellow in neuroengineering and data science at the University of Washington, where he is working on computational models of bionic vision in order to improve the perceptual experience of blind patients implanted with a retinal prosthesis (bionic eye).His work lies at the intersection of neuroscience, computer engineering, computer vision, and machine learning. He is also an active contributor to several open source software projects, and has professional programming experience in Python, C/C++, CUDA, MATLAB, and Android. Michael received a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Irvine, and an MSc in biomedical engineering and a BSc in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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3D point cloud visualization


The last step is visualizing the triangulated 3D real-world points. An easy way of creating 3D scatterplots is by using matplotlib. However, if you are looking for more professional visualization tools, you may be interested in Mayavi (http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi), VisPy (http://vispy.org), or the Point Cloud Library (http://pointclouds.org). Although the latter does not have Python support for point cloud visualization yet, it is an excellent tool for point cloud segmentation, filtering, and sample consensus model fitting. For more information, head over to strawlab's GitHub repository at https://github.com/strawlab/python-pcl.

Before we can plot our 3D point cloud, we obviously have to extract the [R | t] matrix and perform the triangulation as explained earlier:

def plot_point_cloud(self, feat_mode="SURF"):
    self._extract_keypoints(feat_mode)
    self._find_fundamental_matrix()
    self._find_essential_matrix()
    self._find_camera_matrices_rt...
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Michael Beyeler is a postdoctoral fellow in neuroengineering and data science at the University of Washington, where he is working on computational models of bionic vision in order to improve the perceptual experience of blind patients implanted with a retinal prosthesis (bionic eye).His work lies at the intersection of neuroscience, computer engineering, computer vision, and machine learning. He is also an active contributor to several open source software projects, and has professional programming experience in Python, C/C++, CUDA, MATLAB, and Android. Michael received a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Irvine, and an MSc in biomedical engineering and a BSc in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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Michael Beyeler is a postdoctoral fellow in neuroengineering and data science at the University of Washington, where he is working on computational models of bionic vision in order to improve the perceptual experience of blind patients implanted with a retinal prosthesis (bionic eye).His work lies at the intersection of neuroscience, computer engineering, computer vision, and machine learning. He is also an active contributor to several open source software projects, and has professional programming experience in Python, C/C++, CUDA, MATLAB, and Android. Michael received a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Irvine, and an MSc in biomedical engineering and a BSc in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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