Sponsor: Natural Science and Engineering
Research Council Project period: 1993-1996 Principal Investigator: Dr. Ron Li Project Team: L. Qian, C. Tao, and W. Zou
Description:
The purpose of this project was to automate processing and measuring
procedures of handling images from mobile mapping systems, which integrate
GPS/INS and photogrammetry techniques. The software package ImagExpert
performs automatic or semi-automatic recognition of image features and
sequences. The following characteristic functions are designed for ImagExpert:
traffic white lines on the highways can be automatically followed; profiles
and surfaces along the highway can be generated automatically; the interesting
objects located on the sides of the highway can be semi-automatically reconstructed;
the highway related objects e.g. fire hydrants, poles, road signs, manholes,
and text should be recognized and located.