Generating Absolute-Scale Point Cloud Data of Built Infrastructure Scenes Using a Monocular Camera Setting

Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Rashidi, Abbas ^a   Brilakis, Ioannis ^b   Vela, Patricio ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute scale; Monocular videogrammetry; Point cloud data; Three dimensional (3D) reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

ABSOLUTE SCALE; CALIBRATION PATTERNS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; POINT CLOUD DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) RECONSTRUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; VIDEOGRAMMETRY;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 84945117607     PISSN: 08873801     EISSN: 19435487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000414     Document Type: Article

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