Aerial Vision Group

We're proud to present the first system for dense reconstruction on-the-fly: A distributed pipeline which allows to perform purely visual tracking, as well as spare and volumetric dense reconstruction in real-time, using mobile image acquisition platforms such as quad-rotor helicopters or tablet computers. Our work is going to be published in this year's CVPR proceedings; but you can already get a preview by reading the paper and having a look at the video!

Siemens Innovation News features an article about our CONSTRUCT project. We're currently developing this system for monitoring construction sites in collaboration with Siemens; check out our project page for further information. Moreover, we would like to congratulate our Master student Mario Katusic for completing his thesis!

Our contribution to ICRA 2012 in Minnesota (USA) highlights our 3D reconstruction workflow, from image acquisition to georeferencing. Please have a look at our new video, and don't forget to turn on the sound! Most algorithms used are discussed in detail by papers available on our webpage. See our publications for further information.

January 2012 brings four new publications in quite diverse fields: Visual localization, network planning for 3D reconstruction, airborne visual inspection as required for instance during power pylon inspection, and rapid city model approximation. Moreover, we would like to congratulate our Master student Thomas Kempter for completing his thesis!

We're proud to announce that our team has won two additional awards this year:

• The Best Presentation Prize of the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) 2011 in Sicily has been awarded to Andreas Wendel for his work on "Visual Landmark-based Outdoor Localization for MAVs".
• The Best Paper Award of the CVPR 2011 Workshop on Aerial Video Processing has been awarded to Andreas Wendel, Arnold Irschara, and Horst Bischof for their work on "Automatic Alignment of 3D Reconstructions using a Digital Surface Model".

Thanks to the invitation of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) we were able to give a technical demonstration of our projects PEGASUS and CONSTRUCT at European Forum Alpbach 2011. Please find some aerial images of Alpbach, the Congress Center Alpbach, and some of our visitors in our media section.

We're glad to announce that Pegasus has won the FIT-IT Award of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG in the category "Visual Computing", meaning that our proposal has got the best ratings in the 2009 reviews. Since the award ceremony, which took place in late June, we've been the subject of several press releases. You can find copies and links in our media section.