Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs10081246
Keywords
unmanned aerial vehicle; oblique photogrammetry; structure-from-motion; maximal spanning tree; tiling strategy; hierarchical motion consistency constraint
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Accurate orientation is required for the applications of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images. In this study, an integrated Structure from Motion (SfM) solution is proposed, which aims to address three issues to ensure the efficient and reliable orientation of oblique UAV images, including match pair selection for large-volume images with large overlap degree, reliable feature matching of images captured from varying directions, and efficient geometrical verification of initial matches. By using four datasets captured with different oblique imaging systems, the proposed SfM solution is comprehensively compared and analyzed. The results demonstrate that linear computational costs can be achieved in feature extraction and matching; although high decrease ratios occur in image pairs, reliable orientation results are still obtained from both the relative and absolute bundle adjustment (BA) tests when compared with other software packages. For the orientation of oblique UAV images, the proposed method can be an efficient and reliable solution.
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