Image-based 3D Reconstruction and Model Creation

In the past years, the interest and importance of image-based 3d reconstruction has increased significantly in the use of everyday applications. Especially the advancements of modern hardware and state-of-the-art algorithms, with respect to their performance, facilitate the use of real-time 3d information in numerous applications, such as (urban) navigation, scene interpretation, security surveillance, change detection and the operation of autonomous vehicles.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

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The Fraunhofer IOSB offers expertise, algorithms and solutions in a number of different research topics essential to image-based 3d reconstruction:

• Simultaneous visual self-localisation and mapping (vSLAM), needed for the navigation in an known or unknown envorionment
• Geographic localisation and registration, as well as calibration of a single camera or a camera network
• Stereo vision based on a fixed stereo camera system
• Scene reconstruction from a self-moving camera with Structure-from-Motion (SfM), as well as from a collection of unordered images with Multi-View Stereo (MVS)
• Creation of digital ortho mosaics (DOMs) and digital elevation models (DEMs)
• Visualisation of 3d data
• Use and integration of commercial off the shelf (COTS) photogrammetry software and geoinformation systems (GIS)

Real-time Stereo Reconstruction