Active View Planner for Infrastructure 3D Reconstruction

Precise 3D modeling is crucial for infrastructure inspections, monitoring, and life-cycle management. However, the efficient construction of accurate 3D models poses significant challenges. This paper addresses these challenges by presenting a novel coverage view planner specifically designed for the precise 3D reconstruction of infrastructure. The proposed method takes into account the requirements of Multi-View Stereo (MVS) matching and plans the corresponding viewpoints for reconstruction. The reconstructibility is also introduced, which serves as a predictive measure for the quality of re-construction. In addition, this reconstructibility is used as an objective function to optimize the position and orientation of viewpoints. To validate the efficacy of the proposed approach, a series of experiments are conducted across real-world scenar-ios. Our evaluation and comparative analyses unequivocally demonstrate the high efficiency of our method in generating high-quality viewpoints.