Computer vision techniques, in conjunction with acquisition through remote cameras and
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), offer promising non-contact solutions to civil infrastructure …

Over recent decades, 3D point clouds have been a popular data source applied in automatic
change detection in a wide variety of applications. Compared with 2D images, using 3D …

It is challenging to measure the geometry distortion of point cloud introduced by point cloud
compression. Conventionally, the errors between point clouds are measured in terms of …

In rate-distortion optimization, the encoder settings are determined by maximizing a
reconstruction quality measure subject to a constraint on the bitrate. One of the main …

Surveying techniques such as terrestrial laser scanner have recently been used to measure
surface changes via 3D point cloud (PC) comparison. Two types of approaches have been …

Conventional visual bridge inspection methods are time consuming and may put the
inspector in dangerous situations. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently …

Three-dimensional models provide a volumetric representation of space which is important
for a variety of robotic applications including flying robots and robots that are equipped with …

Due to the unprecedented technology development of sensors, platforms and algorithms for
3D data acquisition and generation, 3D spaceborne, airborne and close-range data, in the …

Change detection and deformation monitoring is an active area of research within the field of
engineering surveying and other overlapping areas such as structural and civil engineering …

This manuscript presents a review on the application of a remote sensing technique
(terrestrial laser scanning, TLS) to a well‐known topic (rock slope characterization and …