The Boeing Company
Structure-based camera pose estimation system

Abstract:

A camera pose estimation system is provided for estimating the position of a camera. The system may be configured to receive a 2D image of at least a portion of a structure captured by a camera, and produce an annotated 2D image in which a plurality of architecture features of the structure in the 2D image are overlaid with a corresponding plurality of geometric features. A synthetic camera may be positioned at a particular position, and a synthetic 2D image of at least a portion of a 3D model of the structure may be rendered by the synthetic camera. An amount of error in the particular position of the synthetic camera based on the annotated 2D image and synthetic 2D image may be calculated.