"Satellite image orientation and DEM Generation"


Headlines:

 

1. Fundamentals
- Theory pinhole camera model
- Camera calibration / undistortion
- Push-broom model

2. Image Orientation
- Tie point matching
- Outlier removal
- Pose estimation / single scene orientation
- Bundle block adjustment

3. 3D - Dense Reconstruction
- Epipolar Geometry / Fundamental matrix
- Planesweep approach
- Generation of Disparity Space Image
- Image Matching - cost functions
- Adaptive Support Windows
- Cost aggregation / Regularization techniques
  (WTA, SGM, MRF, Total Variation)

4. Post-Processing
- Consistency check (LR-check)
- Outlier filter
- Interpolation
- Sub-disparity refinement
- 2.5D depthmap fusion
- 3D fusion

5. 3D Modeling
- Meshing of point clouds / DSMs
- Mesh simplification for data reduction
- Multi-view texturing