How to measure (real life measurement) the dimensions of an object ?

Salem

Greetings,

is there a way to measure the length and width of objects that we commonly have in our room like a chair or a book ?

erik

Hello Salem ,
It's possible, but not trivial. We don't have any demos yet, but we believe that for primitive shapes (eg. cylinder, cuboid/box, spheres etc.) you could go with the pointcloud (our implementation here) approach and use a library like pyRansac or PCF to analyze the pointcloud and get these shapes. Thoughts?
Thanks, Erik

Salem

erik
Hello erik,

won't spatial coordinates by enough for this? why do i need pointcloud ?

erik

Hello Salem , maybe in some cases spatial coordinates would be enough, but I don't think this could be generalized for all cases. Could you describe the process of how to convert spatial coordiantes to dimensions of an object?

Salem

erik
define a specific areas at the far ends of a specific object, get the area's spatial coordiantes and use euclidean formula to calculate the distance. An example is shown in the image below, the actual measurement is 16 cm.