Timely and accurate evaluation of damage sustained by buildings after seismic events such as earthquakes or blasts is critical to determine the buildings’ safety and suitability for their future occupancy. Time used in conducting the evaluations substantially affects the duration for which the potentially damaged buildings remain unusable. The elapsed time may lead to direct economic losses to ...

The current process of asset creation in digital multimedia applications, such as movies and video games, requires tedious amounts of work. The average pipeline for creating one character model, for instance, takes an average of two weeks for the studio to implement, while still struggling to pass the uncanny valley for photorealistic rendering. Duplicating models from the real material world c...

Digital orthoimage compose an efficient and economic way for the representation of two-dimensional texture information. This kind of information is functional when the user has to evaluate, analyze or measure the objects presented in the image. If the projection has to be performed on a single plane and the form of the object is not rough, the process is simple and well-known as simple rectific...

Automatic camera calibration via self-calibration with the aid of coded targets is now very much the norm in closerange photogrammetry. This is irrespective of whether the cameras to be calibrated are high-end metric, or the digital SLRs and consumer-grade models that are increasingly being employed for image-based 3D measurement. Automation has greatly simplified the calibration task, but ther...

This paper describes the use of digital photogrammetry for measurement of deflections in concrete beams during destructive testing. A two-video camera system was used to measure vertical deflections with a precision of ±0.25mm (1σ). The system, network design and processing methods are described in detail. Results are presented from several tests of different types of beams. Some of the advanta...

Unbaked earth structures, like adobe structures are found in abundance throughout the world. Like most structures, they are subject to deterioration through time. The preservation of historic adobe structures requires careful attention and evaluation of several factors, but material erosion is the main concern. In order to calculate the amount of erosion, accurate measurement of the structures ...

This paper presents a procedure for assessing the quality of a digital elevation model (DEM) which has been applied to the output of a normalized cross correlation based stereomatching algorithm. Using semimetric photography of natural gravel river bed surfaces acquired in the field, digital photogrammetry was used to extract DEMs automatically for use in characterizing surface roughness proper...

Deformation monitoring, and in general structural health monitoring, of civil infrastructure systems is important in terms of both safety and serviceability. Traditionally, large structures have been monitored using surveying techniques, while fine-scale monitoring of structural components has been done with geotechnical instrumentation. This paper reviews the advantages and disadvantages of us...

By means of the progress in photogrammetry; it is now possible to produce the maps of huge areas more quickly and economically but the production steps are still expensive and time consuming. In recent years, parallel to the development in photogrammetry, more effective methods are researched to make available digitizing line features like roads full automatically or semi-automatically from dig...

Historical building conservation raises two important issues which are documentation and refurbishing. For the recording and documentation, we already have developed 3d laser scanner and such photogrammetry technology those represent a freeze object of virtual reality by digital documentation. On the other hand, the refurbished engineering of historic building is a challenge for conservation he...