H. Veldhuis et G. Vosselman, THE 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF STRAIGHT AND CURVED PIPES USING DIGITAL LINEPHOTOGRAMMETRY, ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 53(1), 1998, pp. 6-16
From the industry a growing demand for as-built digital information of
large pipe systems exists. In this paper two models are presented whi
ch enable the reconstruction of straight and curved pipes from digital
images. The model for straight pipes is based on Mulawa's coplanarity
constraint defining a relation between the unknown parameters of a 3D
Line and measured points on this line in a set of images. Furthermore
a model is developed for the reconstruction of curved pipes. The comb
ination of both models will result in a fast and more accurate determi
nation of the parameters of both the straight and curved pipes. It is
shown that line photogrammetry can be an appropriate method for the re
construction of straight pipes. Tests on a set of images of a pipe fra
me gives encouraging results for the use of digital Line photogrammetr
y for the 3D reconstruction of pipe systems. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science
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