This paper initially proves mathematically that the solution of the relative orientation of the push broom stereo images leads to a set of ill-posed system of observation equations which means no relative orientation for this kind of imageries is possible. It is then demonstrated that the only way to bypass the inherent rank deficiency in the system of the relative orientation equations, is to ...

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The purpose of this paper is to propose new, rigorous, more robust and reliable models and methods for the calibration and orientation of multi-sensor systems with INS/GPS data. On the one hand, the classical spatial sensor orientation and calibration problem is reformulated as a relative control problem by transferring the relative orientation of an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) between two ...

This paper presents an empirical investigation into the quality of automatic relative orientation procedures. The results of an in-house developed automatic orientation software called AURELO (Läbe and Förstner, 2006) are evaluated. For this evaluation a recently proposed consistency measure for two sets of orientation parameters (Dickscheid et al., 2008) and the ratio of two covariances matric...

Two methods to solve the relative orientation of two disparity maps measured by a movable stereo head from distinct viewpoints are presented. The rst method is based on modeled features such as plane normals, axes of cones and cylinders, and vertices of cones. In the second method, the rst disparity map is projected onto the second one and the diierence between the projected and the second map ...

Certain approaches to the problem of relative orientation in binocular stereo (as well as long-range motion vision) lead to an encoding of the baseline (translation) and orientation (rotation) in a single 3 × 3 matrix called the “essential” matrix. The essential matrix is defined by E = BR, where B is the skew-symmetric matrix that satisfies Bv = b × v for any vector v, with b being the baselin...

In this work, through investigating a series of liquid, glassy, and crystalline samples with ultrafast multiple-mode 2D IR and IR transient absorption methods, we demonstrated that the signal anisotropy of vibrational relaxation-induced heat effects is determined by both relative molecular orientations and molecular rotations. If the relative molecular orientations are randomized or molecular r...

When beta-pleated sheets pack face to face in proteins, the angle between the strand directions of the two beta-sheets is observed to be near -30 degrees . We propose a simple model for beta-sheet-to-beta-sheet packing in concanavalin A, plastocyanin, gamma-crystallin, superoxide dismutase, prealbumin, and the immunoglobin fragment V(REI). This model shows how the observed relative orientation ...

Aerosol movement into 4 different sentinel cage configurations at 0 degrees, 30 degrees and 60 degrees orientation relative to the aerosol flow in a wind tunnel was studied using a quartz crystal microbalance cascade impactor. The data suggest that a cylinder, screened on all sides, with the longitudinal axis perpendicular to the ground would provide a consistent cage profile to the wind regard...

The paper addresses the navigation problem for an autonomous robot designed to inspect sewerage. The robot, which is about half size of the sewer diameter, must keep its orientation in the entirely dark sewerage. The only a priory information known is the geometrical shape of the sewer (cylindrical, etc). This implies a strong geometrical constraint on the environment the robot can expect. In t...