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Articles | Volume XLI-B3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B3-315-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B3-315-2016
09 Jun 2016
 | 09 Jun 2016

THE USE OF COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS FOR AUTOMATIC ORIENTATION OF TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING DATA

Jakub Stefan Markiewicz

Keywords: Feature Extraction, Scan Registration, Computer Vision, analysis of image matching algorithms, TLS

Abstract. The paper presents analysis of the orientation of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data. In the proposed data processing methodology, point clouds are considered as panoramic images enriched by the depth map. Computer vision (CV) algorithms are used for orientation, which are applied for testing the correctness of the detection of tie points and time of computations, and for assessing difficulties in their implementation. The BRISK, FASRT, MSER, SIFT, SURF, ASIFT and CenSurE algorithms are used to search for key-points. The source data are point clouds acquired using a Z+F 5006h terrestrial laser scanner on the ruins of Iłża Castle, Poland. Algorithms allowing combination of the photogrammetric and CV approaches are also presented.