With the development of powerful, relatively low cost, digital image processing hardware capable of handling multiple image streams, it has become possible to implement affordable digital photogrammetry systems based on this technology. In addition, high speed versions of this hardware have the ability to manipulate these image streams in 'realtime', enabling the photogrammetry systems developed to expand their functionality from the off-line surveying of conventional photogrammetry to more time-critical domains such as object tracking and control systems. One major hurdle facing these 'real-time' photogrammetry systems is the need to extract the corresponding points from the multiple input images in order that they may be processed and measurements obtained. Even a highly skilled operator is not capable of manually processing the images in such a time that the speed of operation of the system would not be severely compromised. Thus an automatic system of matching these points is required. The use of automated point matching in the field of photogrammetry has been extensively investigated in the past. The objective has, however, been primarily to reduce the need for trained operators employed in the extraction of data from conventional photogrammetric studies and in the automation of data extraction from large data sets. The work presented here attempts to adapt these methods to the more time dominated problem of 'real-time' image matching.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:339856 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Ord, Leslie B. |
| Publisher | University of Aberdeen |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU603183 |
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