WG Correspondence

Mission:

Image sequence analysis is playing an important role in many fields of close-range photogrammetry, computer vision, machine vision and robot vision for many years. With the development of modern, flexible digital sensors, automatic methods for analyzing and evaluating image sequences are also entering the fields of aerial photogrammetry and remote sensing. Examples of the application of image sequence analysis in photogrammetry and remote sensing are 2D/3D object tracking, ego-motion determination, detection and characterization of dynamic processes, deformation measurements, monocular or stereoscopic mapping of the environment of a UAV or an autonomous robot, mobile mapping, biomedical motion analysis, and many others.

However, recent research has shown that a pure transition of methods mainly designed for the analysis of (close-range) video streams to the aforementioned applications is not possible due to different camera characteristics, varying frame rates, other platforms and, in general, very challenging environments. Further theoretical and experimental developments accompanied by thorough validations are thus necessary to better exploit the huge information content of image sequences.

Terms of Reference:

 
Models, methods and algorithms for:

• Studying camera and camera network calibration from image sequences including cameras with non-standard geometry and variable framerate
• Studying ego-motion determination for navigation, georeferencing and object reconstruction
• Studying detection, reconstruction, classification and tracking of single and multiple objects in image sequences
• Studying event reconstruction from image sequences as well as single and multiple video streams
• Investigating the quality assessment of calibration, orientation and object detection using image sequences
• Benchmarking of calibration, orientation and object detection techniques using image sequences

• PIA11 - Photogrammetric Image Analysis
  The proceedings are online!
• JURSE2011 - Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event
  The proceedings are online!
• CMRT09 - CityModels, Roads and Traffic
  The proceedings are online!
• WG III/5: New datasets available!

Technical Commission Officers:

Chair	Co-Chair	Co-Chair	Secretary
Uwe Stilla Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Technische Universitaet Muenchen Arcisstr. 21 80333 Muenchen Germany Tel: +49 89 289 2267 Fax: +49 89 280 9573 http: www.pf.bv.tum.de	Chris Mc Glone Science Applications International Corporation Spatial Tech. & Concept Division 14668 Lee Rd Chantilly, VA 20151 USA Tel: +1 703 676 9228 Fax: +1 703 676 9300 http: http://www.saic.com	Stefan Hinz Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing University of Karlsruhe Kaiserstr. 12 76128 Karlsruhe Germany Tel: +49 721 608-2314 Fax: +49 721 608-8450 http: www.ipf.uni-karlsruhe.de	Matthias Butenuth IAV GmbH Horchstr. 1d 85080 Gaimersheim Germany http: www.iav.de   matthias.butenuth@iav.de