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788 Citations
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30 May 2011

The importance of landscape and heritage recording and documentation with optical remote sensing sensors is well recognized at international level. The continuous development of new sensors, data capture methodologies and multi-resolution 3D represen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,304 Views
22 Pages

Parametric Modeling Method for 3D Symbols of Fold Structures

  • An-Bo Li,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Xiao-Feng Du,
  • Guo-Kai Sun and
  • Xian-Yu Liu

Most fabrication methods for three-dimensional (3D) geological symbols are limited to two types: directly increasing the dimensionality of a 2D geological symbol or performing appropriate modeling for an actual 3D geological situation. The former can...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,125 Views
26 Pages

Combining 3D Geological Modeling and 3D Spectral Modeling for Deep Mineral Exploration in the Zhaoxian Gold Deposit, Shandong Province, China

  • Bin Li,
  • Yongming Peng,
  • Xianyong Zhao,
  • Xiaoning Liu,
  • Gongwen Wang,
  • Huiwei Jiang,
  • Hao Wang and
  • Zhenliang Yang

9 October 2022

The Jiaodong Peninsula hosts the main large gold deposits and was the first gold production area in China; multisource and multiscale geoscience datasets are available. The area is the biggest drilling mineral-exploration zone in China. This study us...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,873 Views
20 Pages

Progressive Model-Driven Approach for 3D Modeling of Indoor Spaces

  • Ali Abdollahi,
  • Hossein Arefi,
  • Shirin Malihi and
  • Mehdi Maboudi

26 June 2023

This paper focuses on the 3D modeling of the interior spaces of buildings. Three-dimensional point clouds from laser scanners can be considered the most widely used data for 3D indoor modeling. Therefore, the walls, ceiling and floor are extracted as...

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  • Open Access
878 Views
13 Pages

Exploring 3D Roadway Modeling Techniques Using CAD and Unity3D

  • Yingbing Yang,
  • Yunchuan Sun and
  • Yuhong Wang

28 July 2025

To tackle the inefficiencies in 3D mine tunnel modeling and the tedious task of drawing centerlines, this study introduces a faster method for generating centerlines using CAD secondary development. Starting with the tunnel centerline, the research t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,900 Views
11 Pages

Automatic 3D Modeling Technique for Transmission Towers from 2D Drawings

  • Ziqiang Tang,
  • Chao Han,
  • Hongwu Li,
  • Zhou Fan,
  • Ke Sun,
  • Yuntian Huang,
  • Yuxin Chen and
  • Chenxing Wang

29 November 2024

The 3D modeling of transmission towers currently depends on manual operations, resulting in high labor and time costs. To this end, an automatic 3D modeling technique based on 2D drawings is proposed. Using this method, the 2D drawings of transmissio...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,944 Views
17 Pages

Improving 3D Reconstruction Through RGB-D Sensor Noise Modeling

  • Fahira Afzal Maken,
  • Sundaram Muthu,
  • Chuong Nguyen,
  • Changming Sun,
  • Jinguang Tong,
  • Shan Wang,
  • Russell Tsuchida,
  • David Howard,
  • Simon Dunstall and
  • Lars Petersson

5 February 2025

High-resolution RGB-D sensors are widely used in computer vision, manufacturing, and robotics. The depth maps from these sensors have inherently high measurement uncertainty that includes both systematic and non-systematic noise. These noisy depth es...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,613 Views
15 Pages

Comparing 2D and 3D Solar Radiation Modeling in Urban Areas

  • Štefan Kolečanský,
  • Jaroslav Hofierka,
  • Jozef Bogľarský and
  • Jozef Šupinský

11 December 2021

The use of solar radiation in the urban environment is becoming increasingly important for the sustainable development of cities and human societies. Several factors influence the distribution of solar radiation in urban areas, including urban morpho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,197 Views
24 Pages

Active Shapes for Automatic 3D Modeling of Buildings

  • Beril Sirmacek and
  • Roderik Lindenbergh

20 November 2015

Recent technological developments help us to acquire high quality 3D measurements of our urban environment. However, these measurements, which come as point clouds or Digital Surface Models (DSM), do not directly give 3D geometrical models of buildin...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,235 Views
20 Pages

3D Face Modeling Using the Multi-Deformable Method

  • Jinkyu Hwang,
  • Sunjin Yu,
  • Joongrock Kim and
  • Sangyoun Lee

25 September 2012

In this paper, we focus on the problem of the accuracy performance of 3D face modeling techniques using corresponding features in multiple views, which is quite sensitive to feature extraction errors. To solve the problem, we adopt a statistical mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,500 Views
32 Pages

28 December 2010

This paper presents a model-based approach for reconstructing 3D polyhedral building models from aerial images. The proposed approach exploits some geometric and photometric properties resulting from the perspective projection of planar structures. D...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,537 Views
29 Pages

Integrative Modeling and Experimental Insights into 3D and 4D Printing Technologies

  • Angel Cabrera Pereira,
  • Vasudev Vivekanand Nayak,
  • Paulo G. Coelho and
  • Lukasz Witek

24 September 2024

This review focuses on advancements in polymer science as it relates to three-dimensional (3D) and four-dimensional (4D) printing technologies, with a specific emphasis on applications in the biomedical field. While acknowledging the breadth of 3D an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
18,400 Views
14 Pages

Ligand-Based Pharmacophore Modeling Using Novel 3D Pharmacophore Signatures

  • Alina Kutlushina,
  • Aigul Khakimova,
  • Timur Madzhidov and
  • Pavel Polishchuk

27 November 2018

Pharmacophore modeling is a widely used strategy for finding new hit molecules. Since not all protein targets have available 3D structures, ligand-based approaches are still useful. Currently, there are just a few free ligand-based pharmacophore mode...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,335 Views
21 Pages

Modeling and Simulation of 3D Food Printing Systems—Scope, Advances, and Challenges

  • Vijayakumar Raja,
  • Shubham Nimbkar,
  • Jeyan Arthur Moses,
  • Sinija Vadakkepulppara Ramachandran Nair and
  • Chinnaswamy Anandharamakrishnan

13 September 2023

Food 3D printing is a computer-aided additive manufacturing technology that can transform foods into intricate customized forms. In the past decade, this field has phenomenally advanced and one pressing need is the development of strategies to suppor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
14,173 Views
18 Pages

Characterizing 3D City Modeling Projects: Towards a Harmonized Interoperable System

  • Arttu Julin,
  • Kaisa Jaalama,
  • Juho-Pekka Virtanen,
  • Matti Pouke,
  • Johanna Ylipulli,
  • Matti Vaaja,
  • Juha Hyyppä and
  • Hannu Hyyppä

3D city models have become common geospatial data assets for cities that can be utilized in numerous fields, in tasks related to planning, visualization, and decision-making among others. We present a study of 3D city modeling focusing on the six lar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,517 Views
12 Pages

Evolutive 3D Modeling: A Proposal for a New Generative Design Methodology

  • Jaime Nebot,
  • Juan A. Peña and
  • Carmelo López Gómez

19 February 2021

At present, traditional 3D modeling programs consist of a set of tools that reflect conventional means of mechanical manufacturing and have limitations in relation with the current manufacturing capacities. On the other hand, organic and morphing 3D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
13,471 Views
26 Pages

4 April 2014

This paper presents methods for 3D modeling of railway environments from airborne laser scanning (ALS) and mobile laser scanning (MLS). Conventionally, aerial data such as ALS and aerial images were utilized for 3D model reconstruction. However, 3D m...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,802 Views
30 Pages

Advancement in Cancer Vasculogenesis Modeling through 3D Bioprinting Technology

  • Arvind Kumar Shukla,
  • Sik Yoon,
  • Sae-Ock Oh,
  • Dongjun Lee,
  • Minjun Ahn and
  • Byoung Soo Kim

Cancer vasculogenesis is a pivotal focus of cancer research and treatment given its critical role in tumor development, metastasis, and the formation of vasculogenic microenvironments. Traditional approaches to investigating cancer vasculogenesis fac...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,856 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2023

The sudden increase in the operating pressure of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is due to the water hammer phenomenon, which tends to produce a whipping effect that causes serious damage to the pipes and their surroundings. The mechanical response of th...

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  • Open Access
181 Views
25 Pages

Process Modeling of 3D Electrodeposition Printing of Metallic Materials

  • Satyaki Sinha,
  • Saumitra Bhate and
  • Tuhin Mukherjee

3D electrodeposition printing is an emerging process for fabricating metallic parts with controllable geometry, yet the coupled influences of electrochemical kinetics, ion transport, and tool motion on layer height remain difficult to interpret. This...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,412 Views
14 Pages

3D Digital Modeling of Dental Casts from Their 3D CT Images with Scatter and Beam-Hardening Correction

  • Mohamed A. A. Hegazy,
  • Myung Hye Cho,
  • Min Hyoung Cho and
  • Soo Yeol Lee

21 March 2024

Dental 3D modeling plays a pivotal role in digital dentistry, offering precise tools for treatment planning, implant placement, and prosthesis customization. Traditional methods rely on physical plaster casts, which pose challenges in storage, access...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,498 Views
18 Pages

31 August 2023

The second most common cause of stroke, accounting for 10% of hospital admissions, is intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and risk factors include diabetes, smoking, and hypertension. People with intracerebral bleeding experience symptoms that are relate...

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  • Open Access
73 Citations
11,356 Views
32 Pages

Modeling Cardiovascular Diseases with hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes in 2D and 3D Cultures

  • Claudia Sacchetto,
  • Libero Vitiello,
  • Leon J. de Windt,
  • Alessandra Rampazzo and
  • Martina Calore

In the last decade, the generation of cardiac disease models based on human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) has become of common use, providing new opportunities to overcome the lack of appropriate cardiac models. Although much progress has b...

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  • Open Access
77 Citations
17,157 Views
22 Pages

4 January 2023

Advances in the scientific fields of photogrammetry and computer vision have led to the development of automated multi-image methods that solve the problem of 3D reconstruction. Simultaneously, 3D scanners have become a common source of data acquisit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,240 Views
20 Pages

2 October 2025

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains highly lethal due to late diagnosis, high malignancy, and profound resistance to therapy. Traditional two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures fail to recapitulate the complex tumor microenvironment (TME), es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
15,395 Views
19 Pages

Utilizing Fractals for Modeling and 3D Printing of Porous Structures

  • AMM Sharif Ullah,
  • Doriana Marilena D’Addona,
  • Yusuke Seto,
  • Shota Yonehara and
  • Akihiko Kubo

Porous structures exhibiting randomly sized and distributed pores are required in biomedical applications (producing implants), materials science (developing cermet-based materials with desired properties), engineering applications (objects having co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,609 Views
19 Pages

Method of 3D Coating Accumulation Modeling Based on Inclined Spraying

  • Danyang Yu,
  • Chengzhi Su,
  • Enguo Wang,
  • Haifeng Bao and
  • Fuheng Qu

14 February 2024

In the process of repairing the surface of products in aviation, aerospace, and other fields by spraying, accurate 3D cumulative-coating modeling is an important research issue in spraying-process simulation. The approach to this issue is a 3D cumula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,788 Views
14 Pages

3D printing technology is able to produce personalized artificial substitutes for patients with damaged menisci. However, there is a lack of thorough understanding of 3D printing-enabled (3DP-enabled) meniscus transplantation and its long-term advant...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,050 Views
21 Pages

Lightweight Semantic Architecture Modeling by 3D Feature Line Detection

  • Shibiao Xu,
  • Jiaxi Sun,
  • Jiguang Zhang,
  • Weiliang Meng and
  • Xiaopeng Zhang

7 April 2023

Existing architecture semantic modeling methods in 3D complex urban scenes continue facing difficulties, such as limited training data, lack of semantic information, and inflexible model processing. Focusing on extracting and adopting accurate semant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,654 Views
21 Pages

A Comparison of Low-Cost Sensor Systems in Automatic Cloud-Based Indoor 3D Modeling

  • Matias Ingman,
  • Juho-Pekka Virtanen,
  • Matti T. Vaaja and
  • Hannu Hyyppä

14 August 2020

The automated 3D modeling of indoor spaces is a rapidly advancing field, in which recent developments have made the modeling process more accessible to consumers by lowering the cost of instruments and offering a highly automated service for 3D model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,120 Views
22 Pages

Metallogenic Prediction of the Zaozigou Gold Deposit Using 3D Geological and Geochemical Modeling

  • Cheng Li,
  • Bingli Liu,
  • Keyan Xiao,
  • Yunhui Kong,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Rui Tang,
  • Miao Xie and
  • Yixiao Wu

13 September 2023

Deep-seated mineralization prediction is an important scientific problem in the area of mineral resources exploration. The 3D metallogenic information extraction of geology and geochemistry can be of great help. This study uses 3D modeling technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,653 Views
17 Pages

Urban Geological 3D Modeling Based on Papery Borehole Log

  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Junqiang Zhang,
  • Yiping Tian,
  • Zhilong Li,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Lirui Xu and
  • Song Wang

Borehole log is important data for urban geological 3D modeling. Most of the current borehole logs are stored in a papery form. The construction of a smart city puts forward requirements for the automatic and intelligent 3D modeling of urban geology....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,614 Views
22 Pages

3D Variables Requirements for Property Valuation Modeling Based on the Integration of BIM and CIM

  • Siham El Yamani,
  • Rafika Hajji,
  • Gilles-Antoine Nys,
  • Mohamed Ettarid and
  • Roland Billen

5 March 2021

The growing rate of urbanization and vertical urban development has aroused the significance of geo-related variables for property units disposed vertically within the same building. Among these, 3D indoor physical and outdoor environmental variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,891 Views
18 Pages

A Quaternion-Based Piecewise 3D Modeling Method for Indoor Path Networks

  • Hongdeng Jian,
  • Xiangtao Fan,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Qingwen Jin and
  • Xujie Kang

Generating 3D path models (with textures) from indoor paths is a good way to improve the visualization performance of 3D indoor path analysis. In this paper, a quaternion-based piecewise 3D modeling method is proposed to automatically generate highly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,061 Views
27 Pages

14 September 2023

Building owners are working on converting their legacy documentation 2D floor plans into digital 3D representations, but the manual process is labor-intensive and time-consuming. In this paper, deep learning is leveraged to automate the process. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,086 Views
15 Pages

A New Sensor System for Accurate 3D Surface Measurements and Modeling of Underwater Objects

  • Christian Bräuer-Burchardt,
  • Christoph Munkelt,
  • Michael Bleier,
  • Matthias Heinze,
  • Ingo Gebhart,
  • Peter Kühmstedt and
  • Gunther Notni

20 April 2022

A new underwater 3D scanning device based on structured illumination and designed for continuous capture of object data in motion for deep sea inspection applications is introduced. The sensor permanently captures 3D data of the inspected surface and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,518 Views
21 Pages

Computational Modeling of DNA 3D Structures: From Dynamics and Mechanics to Folding

  • Zi-Chun Mu,
  • Ya-Lan Tan,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Ben-Gong Zhang and
  • Ya-Zhou Shi

17 June 2023

DNA carries the genetic information required for the synthesis of RNA and proteins and plays an important role in many processes of biological development. Understanding the three-dimensional (3D) structures and dynamics of DNA is crucial for underst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,305 Views
24 Pages

GeoSAE: A 3D Stratigraphic Modeling Method Driven by Geological Constraint

  • Yongpeng Yang,
  • Jinbo Zhou,
  • Ming Ruan,
  • Haiqing Xiao,
  • Weihua Hua and
  • Wencheng Wei

24 January 2025

Deep learning outperforms traditional interpolation methods in 3D geological modeling due to its ability to model nonlinear relationships and its flexibility in incorporating diverse geological data. However, acquiring geological data for practical a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
904 Views
22 Pages

12 August 2025

Three-dimensional reconstruction programs are essential tools for understanding the behavior of asphalt mixtures. On the basis of accurate 3D models, it is convenient to identify the complex relationship between spatial structures and physical proper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,045 Views
18 Pages

Integrative 3D Geological Modeling Derived from SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging Techniques and UAV-Based 3D Model for Carbonate Rocks

  • Huy Hoa Huynh,
  • Jaehung Yu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Nam Hoon Kim,
  • Bum Han Lee,
  • Sang-Mo Koh,
  • Sehyun Cho and
  • Trung Hieu Pham

3 August 2021

This paper demonstrates an integrative 3D model of short-wave infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral mapping and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based digital elevation model (DEM) for a carbonate rock outcrop including limestone and dolostone in a field condit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
7,848 Views
15 Pages

Bioink Composition and Printing Parameters for 3D Modeling Neural Tissue

  • Valentina Fantini,
  • Matteo Bordoni,
  • Franca Scocozza,
  • Michele Conti,
  • Eveljn Scarian,
  • Stephana Carelli,
  • Anna Maria Di Giulio,
  • Stefania Marconi,
  • Orietta Pansarasa and
  • Cristina Cereda
  • + 1 author

5 August 2019

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are a broad class of pathologies characterized by the progressive loss of neurons in the central nervous system. The main problem in the study of NDs is the lack of an adequate realistic experimental model to study th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,119 Views
16 Pages

Informed Local Smoothing in 3D Implicit Geological Modeling

  • Jan von Harten,
  • Miguel de la Varga,
  • Michael Hillier and
  • Florian Wellmann

18 November 2021

Geological models are commonly used to represent geological structures in 3D space. A wide range of methods exists to create these models, with much scientific work focusing recently on implicit representation methods, which perform an interpolation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,050 Views
19 Pages

Overview of the OGC CDB Standard for 3D Synthetic Environment Modeling and Simulation

  • Sara Saeedi,
  • Steve Liang,
  • David Graham,
  • Michael F. Lokuta and
  • Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi

Recent advances in sensor and platform technologies, such as satellite systems, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), manned aerial platforms, and ground-based sensor networks have resulted in massive volumes of data being produced and collected about the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,643 Views
26 Pages

Research Status of and Trends in 3D Geological Property Modeling Methods: A Review

  • Yuyang Liu,
  • Xiaowei Zhang,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Lixia Kang,
  • Jinliang Gao,
  • Rongze Yu,
  • Yuping Sun and
  • Mao Pan

2 June 2022

Three-dimensional (3D) geological property modeling is used to quantitatively characterize various geological attributes in 3D space based on geostatistics with the help of computer visualization technology, and the results are often stored in grid d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,173 Views
20 Pages

Dimensional Accuracy Assessment of Medical Anatomical Models Produced by Hospital-Based Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printer

  • Kevin Wendo,
  • Catherine Behets,
  • Olivier Barbier,
  • Benoit Herman,
  • Thomas Schubert,
  • Benoit Raucent and
  • Raphael Olszewski

30 January 2025

As 3D printing technology expands rapidly in medical disciplines, the accuracy evaluation of 3D-printed medical models is required. However, no established guidelines to assess the dimensional error of anatomical models exist. This study aims to eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,240 Views
36 Pages

Insights and Lessons from 3D Geological and Geophysical Modeling of Mineralized Terranes in Tasmania

  • Daniel Bombardieri,
  • Mark Duffett,
  • Andrew McNeill,
  • Matthew Cracknell and
  • Anya Reading

27 October 2021

Over the last two decades, Mineral Resources Tasmania has been developing regional 3D geological and geophysical models for prospective terranes at a range of scales and extents as part of its suite of precompetitive geoscience products. These have e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,137 Views
24 Pages

Mathematical Camera Array Optimization for Face 3D Modeling Application

  • Bashar Alsadik,
  • Luuk Spreeuwers,
  • Farzaneh Dadrass Javan and
  • Nahuel Manterola

12 December 2023

Camera network design is a challenging task for many applications in photogrammetry, biomedical engineering, robotics, and industrial metrology, among other fields. Many driving factors are found in the camera network design including the camera spec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,107 Views
25 Pages

Modeling the Bone Marrow Niche in Multiple Myeloma: From 2D Cultures to 3D Systems

  • Adele Bottaro,
  • Maria Elisa Nasso,
  • Fabio Stagno,
  • Manlio Fazio and
  • Alessandro Allegra

Multiple myeloma is a hematologic malignancy characterized by the clonal proliferation of plasma cells within the bone marrow. The tumor microenvironment plays a crucial role in multiple myeloma pathogenesis, progression, and drug resistance. Traditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,028 Views
22 Pages

Enhanced RGB-D Mapping Method for Detailed 3D Indoor and Outdoor Modeling

  • Shengjun Tang,
  • Qing Zhu,
  • Wu Chen,
  • Walid Darwish,
  • Bo Wu,
  • Han Hu and
  • Min Chen

27 September 2016

RGB-D sensors (sensors with RGB camera and Depth camera) are novel sensing systems that capture RGB images along with pixel-wise depth information. Although they are widely used in various applications, RGB-D sensors have significant drawbacks includ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,003 Views
17 Pages

Studies on Three-Dimensional (3D) Modeling of UAV Oblique Imagery with the Aid of Loop-Shooting

  • Jia Li,
  • Yongxiang Yao,
  • Ping Duan,
  • Yun Chen,
  • Shuang Li and
  • Chi Zhang

Oblique imagery obtained from an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been widely applied to large-scale three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction; however, the problems of partially missing model details caused by such factors as occlusion, distortion, and...

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