Bridge inspection with aerial robots: Automating the entire pipeline of visual data capture, 3D mapping, defect detection, analysis, and reporting

JJ Lin, A Ibrahim, S Sarwade… - Journal of Computing in …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
The aging of bridges coupled with increased vehicular traffic requires timely and accurate
inspections for elevated highway structures. Recent studies have leveraged the advent of …

Multiobjective optimization of reality capture plans for computer vision–driven construction monitoring with camera-equipped UAVs

A Ibrahim, M Golparvar-Fard… - Journal of Computing in …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
The exponential growth in reality capture and Building Information Modeling (BIM)-enabled
construction workflows has created a surge in computer vision–driven solutions that …

Metrics and methods for evaluating model‐driven reality capture plans

A Ibrahim, M Golparvar‐Fard… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents new metrics and methods for evaluating the quality of reality capture
plans—commonly used to operate camera‐mounted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or …

Simulated gold-standard for quantitative evaluation of monocular vision algorithms

J Akers, A Buck, R Camaioni… - Geospatial …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In the physical universe, truth for computer vision (CV) is impractical if not impossible to
obtain. As a result, the CV community has resorted to qualitative practices and sub-optimal …

A review of existing evaluation methods for point clouds quality

H Fretes, M Gomez-Redondo, E Paiva… - 2019 Workshop on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One problem in 3D reconstruction from aerial photographs is the evaluation of the point
clouds quality. For point clouds, in general, different authors evaluate their results in different …

Integration, harmonization, and processing of geomatic data for bridge health assessment: the Lastra a Signa case study

F Mugnai, V Bonora, G Tucci - Applied Geomatics, 2023 - Springer
A visual inspection, which entails field surveying, such as photodocumentation and footage,
is the first step of a multi-level approach to bridge health assessment. Furthermore, the use …

How should simulated data be collected for ai/ml and unmanned aerial vehicles?

J Kerley, DT Anderson, B Alvey… - Synthetic Data for …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Large and diverse datasets can now be simulated with associated truth to train and evaluate
AI/ML algorithms. This convergence of readily accessible simulation (SIM) tools, real-time …

Modeling and simulation framework for airborne camera systems

MA Drouin, J Fournier, J Boisvert, L Borgeat - Pattern Recognition. ICPR …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Full Motion Video (FMV) and Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) systems have been
used extensively in the recent years to collect overhead imagery to produce value-added …

Three-dimensional measurements of animal paths using handheld unconstrained GoPro cameras and VSLAM software

PC Brady - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
I present the system PATMOS (paths and tessellated meshes from ORB_SLAM2) for
measuring three-dimensional paths of animals in situ using two handheld GoPro cameras …

New metrics to benchmark and improve bim visibility within a synthetic image generation process for computer vision progress tracking

JD Nunez-Morales, SH Hsu, A Ibrahim… - Canadian Society of …, 2023 - Springer
Data collection, particularly ground-truth generation, is crucial for developing computer
vision models used for construction progress monitoring applications. The performance of …