Computer Assisted 3-D Reconstruction from Images
Jennifer Treadway
Master of Science in Mathematics (Industrial and Applied emphasis), June 1998
The Geo-Located Multi-Source Exploitation (GLMX) system is designed to read
in and manipulate images, construct 3-D models from these images and provide
applications which exploit these models. GLMX provides the ability to reconstruct
an image's camera model, a mathematical description of the sensor that took
the image and a prerequisite to 3-D modeling. The 3-D modeling capabilities
of GLMX require intense user interaction and uses wireframe primitives to represent
structural features in the scene. Presented here are the mathematical foundations
of the GLMX camera and site modeling abilities as well as a simple algorithm
for automating a part of the site modeling process.
Research supported by the Minnesota Center for Industrial
Mathematics (MCIM)
