Efficient structure from motion for large-scale UAV images: A review and a comparison of SfM tools

S Jiang, C Jiang, W Jiang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2020 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images have gained extensive attention in varying fields,
and the Structure from Motion (SfM) technique has become the gold standard for aerial …

An overview on image-based and scanner-based 3D modeling technologies

S Verykokou, C Ioannidis - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Advances in the scientific fields of photogrammetry and computer vision have led to the
development of automated multi-image methods that solve the problem of 3D reconstruction …

AliceVision Meshroom: An open-source 3D reconstruction pipeline

C Griwodz, S Gasparini, L Calvet, P Gurdjos… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper introduces the Meshroom software and its underlying 3D computer vision
framework AliceVision. This solution provides a photogrammetry pipeline to reconstruct 3D …

HSfM: Hybrid structure-from-motion

H Cui, X Gao, S Shen, Z Hu - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods can be broadly categorized as incremental or
global according to their ways to estimate initial camera poses. While incremental system …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges

S Jiang, W Jiang, L Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional mapping is an increasingly important feature for recent photogrammetry
and remote sensing (RS) systems. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have …

Parallel structure from motion for UAV images via weighted connected dominating set

S Jiang, Q Li, W Jiang, W Chen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Incremental structure from motion (ISfM) has been widely used for unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) image orientation. Its efficiency, however, decreases dramatically due to iterative …

A new multi-criteria tie point filtering approach to increase the accuracy of UAV photogrammetry models

V Mousavi, M Varshosaz, M Rashidi, W Li - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Extracting accurate tie points plays an essential role in the accuracy of image orientation in
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry. In this study, a Multi-Criteria Decision …

无人机影像增量式运动恢复结构研究进展.

陈武, 姜三, 李清泉, 江万寿 - Geomatics & Information …, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
增量式运动恢复结构(structure from motion, SfM) 已经成为无人机影像空中三角测量的常用解决
方案. 考虑到无人机影像的特点, 增量式SfM 在效率, 精度和稳健性方面的性能有待提高 …

Geometry-aware feature matching for structure from motion applications

R Shah, V Srivastava… - 2015 IEEE Winter …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a two-stage, geometry-aware approach for matching SIFT-like features in a fast
and reliable manner. Our approach first uses a small sample of features to estimate the …

Efficient and Accurate Hierarchical SfM Based on Adaptive Track Selection for Large-Scale Oblique Images

Y Liang, Y Yang, X Fan, T Cui - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Image-based 3D modeling has been widely used in many areas. Structure from motion is
the key to image-based reconstruction. However, the rapid growth of data poses challenges …