Title :
Towards Wiki-based Dense City Modeling
Author :
Irschara, Arnold ; Zach, Christopher ; Bischof, Horst
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Comput. Graphics & Vision, Graz
Abstract :
This work reports on the advances and on the current status of a terrestrial city modeling approach, which uses images contributed by end-users as input. Hence, the Wiki principle well known from textual knowledge databases is transferred to the goal of incrementally building a virtual representation of the occupied habitat. In order to achieve this objective, many state-of-the-art computer vision methods must be applied and modified according to this task. We describe the utilized 3D vision methods and show initial results obtained from the current image database acquired by in-house participants.
Keywords :
image representation; solid modelling; virtual reality; visual databases; 3D vision; Wiki principle; computer vision; image database; terrestrial city modeling; textual knowledge databases; virtual representation; wild-based dense city modeling; Application software; Calibration; Cameras; Cities and towns; Computational geometry; Computer graphics; Computer vision; Earth; Image databases; Lenses;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision, 2007. ICCV 2007. IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rio de Janeiro
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1630-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-5499
DOI :
10.1109/ICCV.2007.4409216