vs, LA
map-making activities, and planetary cartographic
products
- Development and documentation of new techniques
for data acquisition and extraterrestrial mapping
- Development of GIS applications to support extrater-
restrial exploration and science
- Web-based delivery of extraterrestrial map products
and GIS data
- Co-operation with related working groups from ICA,
IAU, NASA and ESA
Plans of Commission IV
Working Group IV/6, Landscape Modelling and Visualisa-
tion is planning a workshop at The University of Georgia
from October 29 - 31, 2001.
ISPRS Technical Commission V
Close-range Techniques and Machine Vision
Incoming President: Petros Patias (Greece)
Incoming Secretary: Alexandra Koussoulakou (Greece)
Outlook by Incoming President
Traditionally Commission V was the focal point for close-
range photogrammetric applications. Unlike other Com-
missions, Commission V followed a vertical approach
developing theories, pursuing research and implementing
it all to a wide scientific spectrum of close-range Pho-
togrammetry applications and real-world problems, with
close co-operation to the other ISPRS Commissions.
This approach attracted the interest of many researchers,
coming from disciplines other than Photogrammetry, thus
offering Commission V a significant opportunity to
broaden its focus and become more interdisciplinary in its
activities. Commission V can serve as a focal point within
both ISPRS and associated organisations, for the commu-
nication of ideas and research progress in interdisciplinary
areas where close-range imaging is used for 3-D scene
reconstruction and visualisation.
Further pursuing this goal, we plan to enhance the inter-
disciplinary nature of Commission V, as close-range imag-
ing applications, has become a more widely adopted
measurement tool in fields such as industrial metrology,
machine and robot vision, medical and sports science,
archaeology, architecture and construction management.
Automation in Vision Metrology Systems and Industrial
Applications remain a main issue and involves the further
realisation of many research goals related to existing theories
and technologies. These include the development of off-line
and on-line systems and solutions for metrology and robot
visions, and the evaluation of systems' performance in theo-
retical and practical aspects. Further, the use of new sensors
call for new developments in data fusion, automated sensor
orientation and calibration, and new algorithmic advances.
Virtual Reality is an active research area with very interesting
applications. It attracts the interest of many discipline, within
which close-range Photogrammetry has a distinct role in
contributing to creation of geometrically accurate and realis-
tically looking real scene and object modelling. This points at
least to three research routes: (a) Development of knowl-
edge-assisted 3-D scene understanding and reconstruction,
(b) Integration of computer graphics and VR technology, and
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(c) Design strategies for multi-sensor data collection and
integration for complex scenes and environments.
Medical applications of close-range Photogrammetry are
currently characterised by real-time requirements, high
geometric accuracy for surgery and anthropometry, moni-
tor and reconstruction of dynamic events like human
motion. There is a vast amount of useful applications of
such research, and Commission V plans to actively sup-
port research and development in this area.
Architecture and Archaeology is another big area of pho-
togrammetric applications. Although the contribution of
photogrammetric techniques is widely acknowledged and
used, the new generation of architects and archaeologists,
becoming more accustomed to digital technology and
Information Systems, demand more complex solutions.
This calls for further research and development from
ISPRS side in areas like innovative technologies and
development of new products, development of low-cost
and rapid techniques, use of Internet and VR technology,
integration of close-range vision techniques and spatial
information systems and finally the development of stan-
dard procedures and products.
The previous collaboration with the computer animation
community for the exchange of knowledge, techniques
and applications is reaching to more maturity. Much study
and research is still required in the areas of integration of
live figures and environment generation tasks into the ani-
mation process and procedures, as well as on the interac-
tion of real and virtual objects.
As wireless field computing applications for close-range
acquisition and processing earn more ground, a new wide
area of research and applications is opening up. New
issues like (a) the integration of office-to-field solutions for
data collection, remote data access, and mobile manage-
ment, (b) methodologies and applications of integrating
close range and high-resolution air-/space-borne imagery,
(c) distributed multimedia geospatial databases incorpo-
rating close range imagery are coming up.
Finally, the area of Image Sequence Analysis, needs the
co-operation of both Commission V and Commission Ill in
pursuing issues like image sequence analysis, temporal
analysis, time-constrained solutions, dynamic analysis and
tracking, integration of image data with navigation sensor
data and multi-sensor information.
Working Groups of Technical Commission V for 2000-
2004
WG V/1 Automation for Vision Metrology Systems and
Industrial Applications
Chair: Stuart Robson (UK)
Co-Chair: Thomas Luhmann (Germany)
WG V/1 Terms of Reference
- Development of off-line and on-line systems, digital
imaging systems and solutions for metrology and robot
vision
- Development of algorithms and procedures for auto-
mated sensor orientation and system calibration
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