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ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 121, Issue -, Pages 113-127Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.08.013
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3D scene reconstruction; Hierarchical degree bounded maximum spanning tree; Skeletal camera network; Structure-from-motion; Unmanned aerial vehicles
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- National Basic Research Program of China - China [2011CB707102]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China - China [41371438]
- Innovation Team Program of Jiangsu Province - China Fundamental Research Funds for Central University - China [105565GK]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) - China
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Structure-from-Motion (SfM) techniques have been widely used for 3D scene reconstruction from multi view images. However, due to the large computational costs of SfM methods there is a major challenge in processing highly overlapping images, e.g. images from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). This paper embeds a novel skeletal camera network (SCN) into SfM to enable efficient 3D scene reconstruction from a large set of UAV images. First, the flight control data are used within a weighted graph to construct a topologically connected camera network (TCN) to determine the spatial connections between UAV images. Second, the TCN is refined using a novel hierarchical degree bounded maximum spanning tree to generate a SCN, which contains a subset of edges from the TCN and ensures that each image is involved in at least a 3-view configuration. Third, the SCN is embedded into the SfM to produce a novel SCN-SfM method, which allows performing tie-point matching only for the actually connected image pairs. The proposed method was applied in three experiments with images from two fixed-wing UAVs and an octo-copter UAV, respectively. In addition, the SCN-SfM method was compared to three other methods for image connectivity determination. The comparison shows a significant reduction in the number of matched images if our method is used, which leads to less computational costs. At the same time the achieved scene completeness and geometric accuracy are comparable. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS).
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