3D reconstruction of cloud cells

Ground-based sky cameras are increasingly used now-a-days to understand cloud formation analysis in the atmosphere. Such cloud analysis has varied applications in aviation industry, solar and renewable energy predictions and cloud attenuation analysis. In this report, the author is interested to per...

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Main Author: Ng, Felicia Ai Jing
Other Authors: Lee Yee Hui
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67115
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description Ground-based sky cameras are increasingly used now-a-days to understand cloud formation analysis in the atmosphere. Such cloud analysis has varied applications in aviation industry, solar and renewable energy predictions and cloud attenuation analysis. In this report, the author is interested to perform a 3D cloud reconstruction using a pair of ground-based sky cameras. Conventional feature matching approaches in computer vision community could not be directly applied to atmospheric clouds, which often seen as featureless, and that may pose as a challenge in such computer vision analysis. This project aims to identify the most effective feature matching algorithm that could maximise the performance of 3D cloud cells reconstruction. Also, parameters which affect the respective feature matching algorithm performances would be covered. Putting particular focus on various types of clouds, in order to improve the feature point matching performance and efficiency, experimental results on cumulus and dark stratocumulus clouds have reflected that the proposed algorithm of combining SURF feature point matching and adaptive histogram equalization contrast technique, have resulted in stronger robustness in a variety of complex image cases, such as dark clouds and stratocumulus clouds for 3D cloud cell reconstruction.
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spelling ntu-10356/671152023-07-07T16:20:48Z 3D reconstruction of cloud cells Ng, Felicia Ai Jing Lee Yee Hui School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering DRNTU::Engineering Ground-based sky cameras are increasingly used now-a-days to understand cloud formation analysis in the atmosphere. Such cloud analysis has varied applications in aviation industry, solar and renewable energy predictions and cloud attenuation analysis. In this report, the author is interested to perform a 3D cloud reconstruction using a pair of ground-based sky cameras. Conventional feature matching approaches in computer vision community could not be directly applied to atmospheric clouds, which often seen as featureless, and that may pose as a challenge in such computer vision analysis. This project aims to identify the most effective feature matching algorithm that could maximise the performance of 3D cloud cells reconstruction. Also, parameters which affect the respective feature matching algorithm performances would be covered. Putting particular focus on various types of clouds, in order to improve the feature point matching performance and efficiency, experimental results on cumulus and dark stratocumulus clouds have reflected that the proposed algorithm of combining SURF feature point matching and adaptive histogram equalization contrast technique, have resulted in stronger robustness in a variety of complex image cases, such as dark clouds and stratocumulus clouds for 3D cloud cell reconstruction. Bachelor of Engineering 2016-05-12T01:46:46Z 2016-05-12T01:46:46Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67115 en Nanyang Technological University 102 p. application/pdf
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