Local Feature Performance Evaluation for Structure-from-Motion and Multi-View Stereo Using Simulated City-Scale Aerial Imagery

Ubiquitous low cost multi-rotor and fixed wing drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have accelerated the need for reliable, robust, and scalable Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipelines suitable for a variety of flightpath trajectories especially in degraded environments. Feature tracking being a core part of SfM and MVS, is essential for multiview scene modeling and ...