Three PhD students have begun their research. Richard Palmer and Michael Borck are working on imagery and ranging data from stereo camera systems, while Abdul Nurunnabi is focusing on point clouds from laser scans.
Michael Borck is currently evaluating low level features to identify which regions are most likely to contain the high level features of interest. He is concentrating on saliency algorithms from the literature and how he can combine them to improve overall performance.
Richard Palmer is completing a course on Artificial Intelligence, run online from Stanford University. He is investigating high level features and machine learning techniques for object recognition, and has been testing a new recognition algorithm with 2D images.
Abdul Nurunnabi has reviewed literature about computer vision, machine learning, photogrammetry and remote sensing. He is analysing robust statistical techniques for automatic feature extraction and error modelling in mobile laser scanning data. He is currently considering the specific needs of using mobile mapping for power line infrastructure analysis.
Researcher David Belton has submitted a refereed conference paper on 2D drawing/plan extraction from point clouds to the SSSI conference in Wellington. He is examining mobile mapping laser data from some 43pl companies to understand accuracy and behaviour and how it is different from traditional static terrestrial laser scanning. He is identifying issues and is assessing existing calibration and registration models for use in mobile mapping systems.
Highlight 1: Research Team Appointed
The P2.01 research team is now complete with the appointments of PhD students Michael Borck, Richard Palmer and Abdul Nurunnabi, and full-time researcher Dave Belton. You can find more about the PhD students and their research at the students page.
“The team is excited to be working at the leading edge of mobile mapping research - very few others are developing automated feature extraction tools from mobile mapping data,” said Project Leader Geoff West.