Vehicular accidents are one of the great societal challenges. In some demographics, they are the leading cause of death. It is important that accidents are thoroughly investigated. The current practice of using laser scanners to capture the accident scene in 3D are so expensive and time consuming that they are only used in the most severe cases. We want to make 3D scene reconstruction with regular cameras practical so that it can be used efficiently by any accident investigator. To this effect we tried several reconstruction programs, developed end-to-end pipelines, improved on current methods, and made software and documentation freely available on a website (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~reconstruction/).
This report summarizes the development of a set of minimum training criteria for police accident reconstructionists. Prior to this effort, no national...
The Volpe Center is supporting the Federal Railroad Administration in performing rail passenger equipment crashworthiness research. The overall object...
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