Feature matching for automatic generation of distortionless digital orthophoto

Maxim Fradkin; Uzi Ethrog

doi:10.1117/12.281038

5 August 1997 Feature matching for automatic generation of distortionless digital orthophoto

Maxim Fradkin, Uzi Ethrog

Proceedings Volume 3072, Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques with Scene Analysis and Machine Vision III; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.281038
Event: AeroSense '97, 1997, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The conventional method of automatic orthophoto generation, based on utilizing existing DTM, is essentially incapable of yielding distortionless rectification of the 3-D surface objects, especially in the case of large-scale man-built environments. Outlining the proposed alternative method of orthophoto generation, we concentrate on the incorporation of feature stereo matching technique, based on a multi-primitive hierarchical approach. First, feature hierarchy, consisting of line segments, parallel segments, vertices, edges, edge contours, and close polygons, is generated simultaneously in two images. This allows, by applying rigorous geometric constraints, to reduce significantly the number of generated spurious features, increasing therefore the efficiency and the reliability of the grouping process as well as those of the following matching procedure. A top-down matching algorithm, utilizing the maximal clique technique, propagates matching results through the hierarchy levels, employing various hierarchical and topological relationships established between the features.

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Maxim Fradkin and Uzi Ethrog "Feature matching for automatic generation of distortionless digital orthophoto", Proc. SPIE 3072, Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques with Scene Analysis and Machine Vision III, (5 August 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.281038

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