Accelerated multi-view stereo for 3d reconstruction of transmission corridor with fine-scale power line

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Abstract

Fast reconstruction of power lines and corridors is a critical task in UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based inspection of high-voltage transmission corridors. However, recent dense matching algorithms suffer the problem of low efficiency when processing large-scale high-resolution UAV images. This study proposes an efficient dense matching method for the 3D reconstruction of high-voltage transmission corridors with fine-scale power lines. First, an efficient random red-black checkerboard propagation is proposed, which utilizes the neighbor pixels with the most similar color to propagate plane parameters. To combine the pixel-wise view selection strategy adopted in Colmap with the efficient random red-black checkerboard propagation, the updating schedule for inferring visible probability is improved; second, strategies for decreasing the number of matching cost computations are proposed, which can reduce the unnecessary hypotheses for verification. The number of neighbor pixels necessary to propagate plane parameters is reduced with the increase of iterations, and the number of the combinations of depth and normal is reduced for the pixel with better matching cost in the plane refinement step; third, an efficient GPU (graphics processing unit)-based depth map fusion method is proposed, which employs a weight function based on the reprojection errors to fuse the depth map. Finally, experiments are conducted by using three UAV datasets, and the results indicate that the proposed method can maintain the completeness of power line reconstruction with high efficiency when compared to other PatchMatch-based methods. In addition, two benchmark datasets are used to verify that the proposed method can achieve a better F score, 4–7 times faster than Colmap. 1.

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Huang, W., Jiang, S., He, S., & Jiang, W. (2021). Accelerated multi-view stereo for 3d reconstruction of transmission corridor with fine-scale power line. Remote Sensing, 13(20). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204097

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