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    A precision estimation method for volumetric changes
    (IEEE, 2019-06) Akça, Mehmet Devrim; Stylianidis, Efstratios; Gruen, Armin W.; Altan, Mehmet Orhan; Hofer, Martin; Smagas, Konstantinos; Sanchez Martin, Victor; Walli, Andreas; Jimeno, Elisa; Garcia, Alejandro
    Earth surface changes are often computed by comparing the sequences of digital elevation models (DEMs) so called the DEM of difference (DoD) method. We present an operational DEM generation, co-registration and DoD comparison software in which the surface changes are quantified in metric units of volume. A practical method, which is based on the law of error propagation, is developed to estimate the theoretical precisions of volumetric changes. The proposed pipeline can estimate the change of object volumes (in terms of loss and gain) together with their precision numbers. Change of the forest volume in a fire effected region in a test site is analyzed for the validation. The method can be used for various change detection applications related to forestry as well as other topics such as earthworks, geomorphology, mining, and urbanization.
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    Nearest neighbor weighted average customization for modeling faces
    (Springer, 2013-10) Abeysundera, Hasith Pasindu; Benli, Kristin Surpuhi; Eskil, Mustafa Taner
    In this paper, we present an anatomically accurate generic wireframe face model and an efficient customization method for modeling human faces. We use a single 2D image for customization of the generic model. We employ perspective projection to estimate 3D coordinates of the 2D facial landmarks in the image. The non-landmark vertices of the 3D model are shifted using the translations of k nearest landmark vertices, inversely weighted by the square of their distances. We demonstrate on Photoface and Bosphorus 3D face data sets that the proposed method achieves substantially low relative error values with modest time complexity.
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    Beamforming and hardware design for a multichannel front-end integrated circuit for real-time 3D catheter-based ultrasonic imaging
    (SPIE-Int Soc Optical Engineering, 2006) Wygant, Ira O.; Karaman, Mustafa; Oralkan, Ömer; Khuri-Yakub, Butrus Thomas
    We are working on integrating front-end electronics with the ultrasound transducer array for real-time 3D ultrasound imaging systems. We achieve this integration by flip-chip bonding a two-dimensional transducer array to an integrated circuit (IC) that comprises the front-end electronics. The front-end IC includes preamplifiers, multiplexers, and pulsers. We recently demonstrated a catheter-based real-time ultrasound imaging system based on a 16 x 16-element capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array. The CMUT array is flip-chip bonded to a front-end IC that includes a pulser and preamplifier for each element of the array. To simplify the back-end processing and signal routing on the IC for this initial implementation, only a single array element is active at a time (classic synthetic aperture (CSA) imaging). Compared with classic phased array imaging (CPA), where multiple elements are used on transmit and receive, CSA imaging has reduced signal-to-noise ratio and prominent grating lobes. In this work, we evaluate three array designs for the next generation front-end IC. The designs assume there are 16 receive channels and that numerous transmit pulsers are provided by the IC. The designs presented are: plus-transmit x-receive, boundary-transmit x-receive with no common elements, and full-transmit x-receive with no common elements. Each design is compared with CSA and CPA imaging. We choose to implement an IC for the full-transmit x-receive with no common elements (FT-XR-NC) design for our next-generation catheter-based imaging system.
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    FORSAT: a 3D forest monitoring system for cover mapping and volumetric 3D change detection
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020-08-02) Stylianidis, Efstratios; Akça, Mehmet Devrim; Poli, Daniela; Hofer, Martin; Gruen, Armin W.; Sánchez Martín, Víctor; Smagas, Konstantinos; Walli, Andreas; Altan, Mehmet Orhan; Jimeno, Elisa; Garcia, Alejandro
    A 3D forest monitoring system, called FORSAT (a satellite very high resolution image processing platform for forest assessment), was developed for the extraction of 3D geometric forest information from very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and the automatic 3D change detection. FORSAT is composed of two complementary tasks: (1) the geometric and radiometric processing of satellite optical imagery and digital surface model (DSM) reconstruction by using a precise and robust image matching approach specially designed for VHR satellite imagery, (2) 3D surface comparison for change detection. It allows the users to import DSMs, align them using an advanced 3D surface matching approach and calculate the 3D differences and volume changes (together with precision values) between epochs. FORSAT is a single source and flexible forest information solution, allowing expert and non-expert remote sensing users to monitor forests in three and four (time) dimensions. The geometric resolution and thematic content of VHR optical imagery are sufficient for many forest information needs such as deforestation, clear-cut and fire severity mapping. The capacity and benefits of FORSAT, as a forest information system contributing to the sustainable forest management, have been tested and validated in case studies located in Austria, Switzerland and Spain.