Efficient structure from motion for large-scale UAV images: A review and a comparison of SfM tools

S Jiang, C Jiang, W Jiang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2020 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images have gained extensive attention in varying fields,
and the Structure from Motion (SfM) technique has become the gold standard for aerial …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges

S Jiang, W Jiang, L Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional mapping is an increasingly important feature for recent photogrammetry
and remote sensing (RS) systems. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have …

RIFT: Multi-modal image matching based on radiation-variation insensitive feature transform

J Li, Q Hu, M Ai - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional feature matching methods, such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT),
usually use image intensity or gradient information to detect and describe feature points; …

A two-step descriptor-based keypoint filtering algorithm for robust image matching

V Mousavi, M Varshosaz, F Remondino… - … on Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding robust and correct keypoints in images remains a challenge, especially when
repetitive patterns are present. In this article, we propose a universal two-step filtering …

High-resolution image registration based on improved SURF detector and localized GTM

A Sedaghat, N Mohammadi - International Journal of Remote …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
High-resolution image registration is an important task in remote sensing image processing.
In this paper, an automatic and robust local feature-based image registration approach is …

LAM: Locality affine-invariant feature matching

J Li, Q Hu, M Ai - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2019 - Elsevier
False match removal is a crucial and fundamental task in photogrammetry and computer
vision. This paper proposes a robust and efficient mismatch-removal algorithm based on the …

Reliable image matching via photometric and geometric constraints structured by Delaunay triangulation

S Jiang, W Jiang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2019 - Elsevier
Image matching is a basic task in the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing. By using
the advantages of the Delaunay triangulation, this paper proposes a novel image matching …

Automatic matching of multimodal remote sensing images via learned unstructured road feature

K Yu, C Xu, J Ma, B Fang, J Ding, X Xu, X Bao, S Qiu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Automatic matching of multimodal remote sensing images remains a vital yet challenging
task, particularly for remote sensing and computer vision applications. Most traditional …

Reliable and efficient UAV image matching via geometric constraints structured by delaunay triangulation

S Jiang, W Jiang, L Li, L Wang, W Huang - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Outlier removal is a crucial step in local feature-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
image matching. Inspired by our previous work, this paper proposes a method for reliable …

RIFT: Multi-modal image matching based on radiation-invariant feature transform

J Li, Q Hu, M Ai - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09493, 2018 - arxiv.org
Traditional feature matching methods such as scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT)
usually use image intensity or gradient information to detect and describe feature points; …