Geo-registered 3D models from crowdsourced image collections

Autor: Jan-Michael Frahm, Pierre Fite-Georgel, Enliang Zheng, Jared Heinly, Marc Pollefeys, Enrique Dunn
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Geo-spatial Information Science. 16:55-60
ISSN: 1993-5153
1009-5020
Popis: In this article we present our system for scalable, robust, and fast city-scale reconstruction from Internet photo collections (IPC) obtaining geo-registered dense 3D models. The major achievements of our system are the efficient use of coarse appearance descriptors combined with strong geometric constraints to reduce the computational complexity of the image overlap search. This unique combination of recognition and geometric constraints allows our method to reduce from quadratic complexity in the number of images to almost linear complexity in the IPC size. Accordingly, our 3D-modeling framework is inherently better scalable than other state of the art methods and in fact is currently the only method to support modeling from millions of images. In addition, we propose a novel mechanism to overcome the inherent scale ambiguity of the reconstructed models by exploiting geo-tags of the Internet photo collection images and readily available StreetView panoramas for fully automatic geo-registration of the 3D...
Databáze: OpenAIRE