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There has been an increased focus on the multi-dimensional reconstruction from variety of cultural heritage images, archeological artifacts and heritage sites. The risk due to climate change which is one of the factors in imaging specific sites located in coastal areas identified to be in danger. Most of the approaches significantly rely on accurate and precise metadata information, which however is difficult to obtain and is more prone to errors. We present an open, cross-platform, effective and extensible GUI annotation tool named EpiX, exploiting the geometric features of epipolar lines, for large photogrammetric imagery analysis. This paper focuses on the use of EpiX for multiple research purposes, including ground truth collection and 3D distance measurement in both high-resolution, high-throughput wide-area format video also known as wide-area motion imagery (WAMI), applicable to acquire airborne images of archeological and heritage sites. We present our experimental results using EpiX, and demonstrate that users could collect useful information and validate original metadata in a much shorter time compared to other techniques accessible to archeologists and photogrammetrist, at present.
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EpiX is not only a powerful and flexible annotation tool for cultural heritage dataset, but also every effective and efficient tool for large WAMI data. In appendix, we will demonstrate some of our results for WAMI dataset.
Figure 13 is one image example from Albuquerque dataset. A ground truth point is marked by a red circle.
Figure 14 demonstrates the autofocusing function on WAMI dataset.
One image example from Albuquerque dataset
Multiple epipolar lines intersect on Albuquerque image: target frame is the second frame in data sequence, computed epipolar lines from frame 1 and frame 108 are marked in blue, correspondence (intersection of two epipolar lines) is marked by a red circle
Multi-pair measurement interface: 5 measurements in Albuquerque dataset. Each measurement is marked in red line segment together with two endpoints, one in green and one in blue. Each pair of points in two images with the same label is matched feature points. Distance for each line segment is displayed on the right side
Figure 15 shows the distance measurement interface on Albuquerque dataset.
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Yao, S., Yu, H., AliAkbarpour, H., Seetharaman, G., Palaniappan, K. (2018). EpiX: A 3D Measurement Tool for Heritage, Archeology, and Aerial Photogrammetry. In: Chanda, B., Chaudhuri, S., Chaudhury, S. (eds) Heritage Preservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7221-5_3
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