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Automatic Registration Of Multiple Texel Images (Fused Lidar/Digital Imagery) For 3d Image Creation, Scott E. Budge, N. Badamikar

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Creation of 3D images through remote sensing is a topic of interest in many applications such as terrain / building modeling and automatic target recognition (ATR). Several photogrammetry-based methods have been proposed that derive 3D information from digital images from different perspectives, and lidar- based methods have been proposed that merge lidar point clouds and texture the merged point clouds with digital imagery. Image registra­ tion alone has difficulty with smooth regions with low contrast, whereas point cloud merging alone has difficulty with outliers and lack of proper convergence in the merging process. This paper presents a method to create …