Embedded, real-time UAV control for improved, image-based 3D scene reconstruction

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 81, Issue , 2016, Pages 264-269

  Liénard, Jean ^a   Vogs, Andre ^b   Gatziolis, Demetrios ^c   Strigul, Nikolay ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Aerial robotics; Computer vision; Real time photogrammetry; Robotics in agriculture and forestry

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REAL TIME CONTROL; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

3D RECONSTRUCTION; 3D SCENE RECONSTRUCTION; AERIAL ROBOTICS; FEATURE IDENTIFICATION; PROCESSING HARDWARE; REAL TIME; REAL TIME EXECUTION; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84952802096     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2015.12.014     Document Type: Article

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