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SfM Workflow
Acquire Imagery
SIFT
Scale Invariant
Feature Transform
Find matching points
in multiple images
CMVS & PMVS
Clustering View for
Multiview Stereo
Dense point
cloud
Bundle Adjustment
Sparse point cloud &
estimate camera position
A Structure from Motion
approach to image processing
Big Data
& Photogrammetry
Traditional
Photogrammetry
Metric Cameras:
- focal length
- aperture
- stable film plane
- lens corrected
- flying height
- relies on GCPs
Structure
from Motion
Big Data approach:
- camera position and settings,
and scene geometry are
computed simultaneously in
a recursive process that
identifies matching features in
multiple images.
- GCPs improve accuracy.
Structure from Motion (SfM)
Digital image matching algorithms
- 1980s (
F
rstner, 1986)
Computer Vision research
- early 1990s (Spetsakis and Aloimonos, 1991)
Mature SfM approaches - mid 2000s
(Furukawa and Ponce, 2007)
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Westoby, M.J., Brasington, J., Glasser, N.F., Hambrey, M.J., and Reynolds, J.M.
2012. 'Structure-from-Motion' photogrammetry: A low-cost, effective tool for
geoscience applications. 1 179, 300-314.
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