Remotely piloted aerial systems (RPAS) have been recognized as an eective low-cost tool to acquire photogrammetric data of low accessible areas reducing collection and processing time. Data processing techniques like structure from motion (SfM) and multiview stereo (MVS) techniques, can nowadays provide detailed 3D models with an accuracy comparable to the one generated by other conventional approaches. Accuracy of RPAS-based measures is strongly dependent on the type of adopted sensors. Nevertheless, up to now, no investigation was done about relationships between camera calibration parameters and final accuracy of measures. In this work, authors tried to fill this gap by exploring those dependencies with the aim of proposing a prediction function able to quantify the potential final error in respect of camera parameters. Predictive functions were estimated by combining multivariate and linear statistical techniques. Four photogrammetric RPAS acquisitions were considered, supported by ground surveys, to calibrate the predictive model while a further acquisition was used to test and validate it. Results are preliminary, but promising. The calibrated predictive functions relating camera internal orientation (I.O.) parameters with final accuracy of measures (root mean squared error) showed high reliability and accuracy.

Combining Interior Orientation Variables to Predict the Accuracy of Rpas–Sfm 3D Models

Enrico Borgogno Mondino;
2020-01-01

Abstract

Remotely piloted aerial systems (RPAS) have been recognized as an eective low-cost tool to acquire photogrammetric data of low accessible areas reducing collection and processing time. Data processing techniques like structure from motion (SfM) and multiview stereo (MVS) techniques, can nowadays provide detailed 3D models with an accuracy comparable to the one generated by other conventional approaches. Accuracy of RPAS-based measures is strongly dependent on the type of adopted sensors. Nevertheless, up to now, no investigation was done about relationships between camera calibration parameters and final accuracy of measures. In this work, authors tried to fill this gap by exploring those dependencies with the aim of proposing a prediction function able to quantify the potential final error in respect of camera parameters. Predictive functions were estimated by combining multivariate and linear statistical techniques. Four photogrammetric RPAS acquisitions were considered, supported by ground surveys, to calibrate the predictive model while a further acquisition was used to test and validate it. Results are preliminary, but promising. The calibrated predictive functions relating camera internal orientation (I.O.) parameters with final accuracy of measures (root mean squared error) showed high reliability and accuracy.
2020
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https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/17/2674/pdf
camera calibration; 3D model accuracy; metric reconstruction; principal components analysis (PCA); predictive analysis
Alessandra Capolupo; Mirko Saponaro; Enrico Borgogno Mondino; Eufemia Tarantino
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