Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery

Aerial imagery is important in remote sensing applications. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a wide range of applications in remote sensing and presents a substantial cost-effective solution when monitoring objects on the earth’s surface. Moreover, object detection and classification are important...

Full description

Main Authors: Qayyum, A., Malik, A.S., Saad, N.M., bin Abdullah, M.F., Iqbal, M., Rasheed, W., Bin Ab Abdullah, A.R., Hj Jaafar, M.Y.
Format: Article
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Record Id / ISBN-0: utp-eprints.19541 /
Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2017
Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015034122&doi=10.1080%2f13682199.2017.1299304&partnerID=40&md5=2626acf1dc0e76d12fbc59fade22496e
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/19541/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id utp-eprints.19541
recordtype eprints
spelling utp-eprints.195412018-04-20T06:50:44Z Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery Qayyum, A. Malik, A.S. Saad, N.M. bin Abdullah, M.F. Iqbal, M. Rasheed, W. Bin Ab Abdullah, A.R. Hj Jaafar, M.Y. Aerial imagery is important in remote sensing applications. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a wide range of applications in remote sensing and presents a substantial cost-effective solution when monitoring objects on the earth’s surface. Moreover, object detection and classification are important aspects of global information system, especially for remote sensing applications and power line monitoring, which are essential for the proper distribution of electricity to consumers. Manual inspection consumes much time and involves risk, especially in remote areas that host dangerous wildlife; hence, UAV-based approaches are more feasible for such monitoring. The authors propose an UAV approach that utilises a digital surface model and incorporates a stereo matching algorithm based on UAV stereo images. The proposed algorithm was based on a graph-cut (GC) algorithm that measured the disparity map. Results were compared with well-known algorithms; including, for example, global and local stereo matching algorithms. The proposed solution introduces and integrates ordering constraints along with a submodular energy minimisation function to/with the GC algorithm to enhance performance. The authors measured sensitivity and recall for all parameters against ground truth data for differently cropped images of 16 power poles. Results showed that the proposed model performed more accurately compared to extant methods. © 2017 The Royal Photographic Society. Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2017 Article PeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015034122&doi=10.1080%2f13682199.2017.1299304&partnerID=40&md5=2626acf1dc0e76d12fbc59fade22496e Qayyum, A. and Malik, A.S. and Saad, N.M. and bin Abdullah, M.F. and Iqbal, M. and Rasheed, W. and Bin Ab Abdullah, A.R. and Hj Jaafar, M.Y. (2017) Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. Imaging Science Journal, 65 (3). pp. 137-150. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/19541/
institution Universiti Teknologi Petronas
collection UTP Institutional Repository
description Aerial imagery is important in remote sensing applications. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a wide range of applications in remote sensing and presents a substantial cost-effective solution when monitoring objects on the earth’s surface. Moreover, object detection and classification are important aspects of global information system, especially for remote sensing applications and power line monitoring, which are essential for the proper distribution of electricity to consumers. Manual inspection consumes much time and involves risk, especially in remote areas that host dangerous wildlife; hence, UAV-based approaches are more feasible for such monitoring. The authors propose an UAV approach that utilises a digital surface model and incorporates a stereo matching algorithm based on UAV stereo images. The proposed algorithm was based on a graph-cut (GC) algorithm that measured the disparity map. Results were compared with well-known algorithms; including, for example, global and local stereo matching algorithms. The proposed solution introduces and integrates ordering constraints along with a submodular energy minimisation function to/with the GC algorithm to enhance performance. The authors measured sensitivity and recall for all parameters against ground truth data for differently cropped images of 16 power poles. Results showed that the proposed model performed more accurately compared to extant methods. © 2017 The Royal Photographic Society.
format Article
author Qayyum, A.
Malik, A.S.
Saad, N.M.
bin Abdullah, M.F.
Iqbal, M.
Rasheed, W.
Bin Ab Abdullah, A.R.
Hj Jaafar, M.Y.
spellingShingle Qayyum, A.
Malik, A.S.
Saad, N.M.
bin Abdullah, M.F.
Iqbal, M.
Rasheed, W.
Bin Ab Abdullah, A.R.
Hj Jaafar, M.Y.
Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery
author_sort Qayyum, A.
title Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery
title_short Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery
title_full Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery
title_fullStr Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery
title_full_unstemmed Measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery
title_sort measuring height of high-voltage transmission poles using unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) imagery
publisher Taylor and Francis Ltd.
publishDate 2017
url https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015034122&doi=10.1080%2f13682199.2017.1299304&partnerID=40&md5=2626acf1dc0e76d12fbc59fade22496e
http://eprints.utp.edu.my/19541/
_version_ 1741196223376785408
score 11.62408

Similar Items