Course Details

Close range photogrammetry

Academic Year 2023/24

HE51 course is part of 1 study plan

​ N-P-C-GK / GD Winter Semester 2nd year

Image triangulation in close-range photogrammetry. Calibration of cameras. Additional conditions in adjustments of orientations and space coordinates. Geometric and non-geometric factors of projects. Accuracy and reliability. 3D models, visualization. Applications of close-range photogrammetry in civil engineering, industry, architecture, archeology, and police practice. Principles of laser scanning.

Course Guarantor

Ing. Petr Kalvoda, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Objective

Methods and applications of close-range photogrammetry. Calibration of cameras. Principles of laser scanning.

Knowledge

Ability to solve tasks such as the orientation of images, creation of a 3D model of an object, calibration of cameras, and analysis of results.

Syllabus

  1. Cameras for close-range photogrammetry
  2. Camera calibration
  3. Image coordinates measurement.
  4. Adjustment methods in close-range photogrammetry.
  5. Geometric and non-geometric factors of projects.
  6. Accuracy and reliability of results.
  7. 3D models, visualization.
  8. Applications of close-range photogrammetry in civil engineering and industry.
  9. Applications of close-range photogrammetry in architecture, and archeology.
  10. Applications of close-range photogrammetry in medicine, police practice.
  11. Automatizations in close-range photogrammetry.
  12. Laser scanning.
  13. The future of close-range photogrammetry and comparing it to laser scanning.

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of photogrammetry

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

The definition of controlled teaching and the method of its implementation are determined by the annually updated decree of the subject guarantor.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/271572

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Photogrammetry - history, types of cameras, images, principles of acquisition and imaging, optics, lenses, depth of field, camera formats, and imaging parameters.
  2. Principle of 3D reconstruction, central projection, extrinsic and intrinsic parameters, camera matrix, the principle of stereo vision, and stereo evaluation.
  3. Coordinate systems in photogrammetry, 2D and 3D transformations, homogeneous coordinates, homography, and solution methods (adjustment).
  4. Close-range photogrammetry, cameras, imaging method, processing methods, accuracy, and calibration.
  5. Acquisition of aerial photographs, types of cameras, flight planning, digitization of analog images, motion blur, and image resolution.
  6. Direct sensor orientation, physical nature, contribution to photogrammetry and aerial scanning, navigation coordinate transformation between sensor coordinates systems, body coordinate system, and navigation (world) coordinate system.
  7. Image orientation, the principle of aerial triangulation, bundle block adjustment, the accuracy of image orientation, additional parameters, GNSS, and IMU in aerial triangulation.
  8. Photogrammetric mapping. Accuracy of stereo evaluation.
  9. A digital orthophoto, digital analysis, and processing of images, digital image correlation, search for interesting (key) points, and analysis of correspondences.
  10. Automation of photogrammetric tasks - image correlation, interest operators, Structure from Motion, dense matching - principle, use, meaning.
  11. Ground and aerial scanning - principles, accuracy, applications.
  12. Aerial scanning - principles, accuracy, applications.
  13. Mobile mapping, UAV: ​​principle, accuracy, application.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • Surveying and calculating coordinates of control points and check points, planning of image capturing.
  • Camera calibration, and image capturing.
    Image orientation and creation of 3D point cloud and mesh model.
  • Accuracy testing, publication, and presentation of results, finalization.