Graduate School Course in Geomatics 2014

October 7.-8., 2014

Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics, has the pleasure of inviting you to attend a two days graduate school course in October 7.-8.2014 in Espoo, Finland.

The main theme of the course is Structure from motion and dense image matching.

The course is aimed at graduate students in the field of Geomatics, but we welcome students and all interested parties of other fields as well. Lectures are given in English.

The lecturers

Prof. Dr. Dieter Fritsch, University of Stuttgart, Institute for Photogrammetry, Germany

Associate Professor Jan-Michael Frahm, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Computer Science, USA



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Tuesday Oct 7.
Lecture hall A2, Otakaari 1 (Main building, Y-Door, 2nd Floor)
8:30 - 9:30 Session I, Introduction „Structure-from-Motion and Dense Image Matching – A Perfect Couple“ (Fritsch 30 min, Frahm 30 min)
9:30 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:45 Session II, Math Definitions: Perspective versus Projective Geometry (Fritsch 23 min, Frahm 23 min)
10:45 - 11:30 Feature Detectors (SIFT, ASIFT, SURF, ORB, etc) (Frahm 45min)
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:40 Session III, Direct and indirect methods of spatial resection (Fritsch, 20 min) Basics of Bundle Block Adjustment and Self-Calibration (Fritsch, 45 min)
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 - 14:30 Structure-from-Motion Technologies: Definitions, workflows, programs. (Frahm 25min, Fritsch 25 min)
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 The stereo case (Frahm, 60mins)



Wednesday Oct 8.
Lecture hall OIH, Otaniementie 19-21 (Open Innovation House)
8:30 - 10:00 Session I, Image matching, dense image matching – Area-based image matching, feature-based image matching, Semi-Global Image Matching, etc (Fritsch, 90 mins)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 Session II, Image based localization (Frahm, 45 min)
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15 Session III, Applications of Sfm and DIM (Fritsch, 45mins)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 - 14:05 Exercises: Android Sfm, DIM (Fritsch, 25 mins) Exercises DIP7 – Low cost point cloud generation (Fritsch, 25 mins)
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Two view image registration (Frahm, 60 min)
16:00 - 16:30 Closing Discussion (Fritsch, Frahm)


Credits

Students are given 1 credit of attending the two days of lectures and exercises.

Costs

The course is free of charge.

Registration

Please email your name and student number to Milka Nuikka (firstname.lastname@aalto.fi) and write "Graduate School Course in Geomatics 2014" to the subject line. The registration is open until Sept 30, 2014.

Contact

Questions concerning the course can be sent to Milka Nuikka (firstname.lastname@aalto.fi)

How to get here?

Aalto University is situated in Otaniemi, Espoo, 10 km from the centre of Helsinki.
The lectures are held in Otakaari 1, (Main building) and Otaniementie 19-21 (Open Innovation House)

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