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Implementation of a real-time stacking algorithm in a photogrammetric digital camera for UAVs / Ahmad Audi (2017)  

Public Titre : Implementation of a real-time stacking algorithm in a photogrammetric digital camera for UAVs Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ahmad Audi , Auteur ; Marc Pierrot-Deseilligny , Auteur ; Christophe Meynard , Auteur ; Christian Thom , Auteur Editeur : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ISPRS Année de publication : 2017 Collection : International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, ISSN 1682-1750 num. 42-2/W6 Conférence : ISPRS 2017, International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics 04/09/2017 07/09/2017 Bonn Allemagne ISPRS OA Archives Importance : pp 13 - 19 Format : 21 x 30 cm Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Acquisition d'image(s) et de donnée(s) [Termes IGN] chambre métrique [Termes IGN] drone [Termes IGN] flou [Termes IGN] GPS-INS [Termes IGN] implémentation (informatique) [Termes IGN] points homologues [Termes IGN] rééchantillonnage [Termes IGN] rotation d'objet Résumé : (auteur) In the recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become an interesting tool in aerial photography and photogrammetry activities. In this context, some applications (like cloudy sky surveys, narrow-spectral imagery and night-vision imagery) need a longexposure time where one of the main problems is the motion blur caused by the erratic camera movements during image acquisition. This paper describes an automatic real-time stacking algorithm which produces a high photogrammetric quality final composite image with an equivalent long-exposure time using several images acquired with short-exposure times. Our method is inspired by feature-based image registration technique. The algorithm is implemented on the light-weight IGN camera, which has an IMU sensor and a SoC/FPGA. To obtain the correct parameters for the resampling of images, the presented method accurately estimates the geometrical relation between the first and the Nth image, taking into account the internal parameters and the distortion of the camera. Features are detected in the first image by the FAST detector, than homologous points on other images are obtained by template matching aided by the IMU sensors. The SoC/FPGA in the camera is used to speed up time-consuming parts of the algorithm such as features detection and images resampling in order to achieve a real-time performance as we want to write only the resulting final image to save bandwidth on the storage device. The paper includes a detailed description of the implemented algorithm, resource usage summary, resulting processing time, resulting images, as well as block diagrams of the described architecture. The resulting stacked image obtained on real surveys doesn’t seem visually impaired. Timing results demonstrate that our algorithm can be used in real-time since its processing time is less than the writing time of an image in the storage device. An interesting by-product of this algorithm is the 3D rotation estimated by a photogrammetric method between poses, which can be used to recalibrate in real-time the gyrometers of the IMU. Numéro de notice : C2017-037 Affiliation des auteurs : LASTIG LOEMI (2012-2019) Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Communication nature-HAL : ComAvecCL&ActesPubliésIntl DOI : 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W6-13-2017 Date de publication en ligne : 23/08/2017 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W6-13-2017 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91886