2009 IRAD: Realtime Virtual Tactical Operations (RTVO)

Principal Investigator: Jan-Michael Frahm
Funding Agency: Lockheed Martin
Agency Number: BBMKS1798

Abstract
In this project we develop a real-time high quality 3D modeling software for street side video of an omnidirectional camera. The main focus of the project is to improve the visual quality of the model by preventing holes and incomplete geometry through the development of a novel depth map fusion. Moreover the project overcomes the inherent inaccuracies of inertia measurement units, which are in the range of several pixel of heading error. Our method uses the video measurements to mitigate those errors achieving sub-pixel errors.