PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVS

Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) are widely used methods in three dimensional (3D) model reconstruction for an infrastructure maintenance purpose. However, if a set of images is not captured from well-placed positions, the final dense model can contain low-quality regions. Sin...

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Main Authors: R. Moritani, S. Kanai, H. Date, Y. Niina, R. Honma
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Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2020-08-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIII-B2-2020/465/2020/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-465-2020.pdf
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description Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) are widely used methods in three dimensional (3D) model reconstruction for an infrastructure maintenance purpose. However, if a set of images is not captured from well-placed positions, the final dense model can contain low-quality regions. Since MVS requires a much longer processing time than SfM as larger amounts of images are provided, it is impossible for surveyors to wait for the SfM–MVS process to complete and evaluate the geometric quality of a final dense model on-site. This challenge results in response inefficiency and the deterioration of dense models in 3D model reconstruction. If the quality of the final dense model can be predicted immediately after SfM, it will be possible to revalidate the images much earlier and to obtain the dense model with better quality than the existing SfM–MVS process. Therefore, we propose a method for reconstructing a more plausible 3D mesh model that accurately approximates the geometry of the final dense model only from sparse point clouds generated from SfM. This approximated mesh model can be generated using Delaunay triangulation for the sparse point clouds and triangle as well as tetrahedron filtering. The approximated model can be used to predict the geometric quality of the final dense model and for an optimization-based view planning. Some experimental results showed that our method is effective in predicting the quality of the final dense model and finding the potentially degraded regions. Moreover, it was confirmed that the average reconstruction errors of the dense model generated by the optimization-based view planning went below tens of millimeters and falls within an acceptable range for an infrastructure maintenance purpose.
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spelling doaj.art-c8bbcab00dd44b4798baba08fa4858f12022-12-21T17:49:00ZengCopernicus PublicationsThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences1682-17502194-90342020-08-01XLIII-B2-202046547110.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-465-2020PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVSR. Moritani0S. Kanai1H. Date2Y. Niina3R. Honma4Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, JapanFaculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, JapanFaculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, JapanAsia Air Survey Co., Ltd.Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd.Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) are widely used methods in three dimensional (3D) model reconstruction for an infrastructure maintenance purpose. However, if a set of images is not captured from well-placed positions, the final dense model can contain low-quality regions. Since MVS requires a much longer processing time than SfM as larger amounts of images are provided, it is impossible for surveyors to wait for the SfM–MVS process to complete and evaluate the geometric quality of a final dense model on-site. This challenge results in response inefficiency and the deterioration of dense models in 3D model reconstruction. If the quality of the final dense model can be predicted immediately after SfM, it will be possible to revalidate the images much earlier and to obtain the dense model with better quality than the existing SfM–MVS process. Therefore, we propose a method for reconstructing a more plausible 3D mesh model that accurately approximates the geometry of the final dense model only from sparse point clouds generated from SfM. This approximated mesh model can be generated using Delaunay triangulation for the sparse point clouds and triangle as well as tetrahedron filtering. The approximated model can be used to predict the geometric quality of the final dense model and for an optimization-based view planning. Some experimental results showed that our method is effective in predicting the quality of the final dense model and finding the potentially degraded regions. Moreover, it was confirmed that the average reconstruction errors of the dense model generated by the optimization-based view planning went below tens of millimeters and falls within an acceptable range for an infrastructure maintenance purpose.https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLIII-B2-2020/465/2020/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-465-2020.pdf
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title PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVS
title_full PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVS
title_fullStr PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVS
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title_short PLAUSIBLE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROXIMATED MESH MODEL FOR NEXT-BEST VIEW PLANNING OF SFM-MVS
title_sort plausible reconstruction of an approximated mesh model for next best view planning of sfm mvs
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