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This paper presents a georeferenced map extraction method, for Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance UAVs. The adopted technique of projecting world points to an image plane is a perfect candidate for a GPU implementation. The achieved high frame rate leads to a plethora of measurements even in the case of a low-power mobile processing unit. These measurements can later be combined in order to refine the output and create a more accurate result.
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Bampis, L., Karakasis, E.G., Amanatiadis, A., Gasteratos, A. (2015). Can Speedup Assist Accuracy? An On-Board GPU-Accelerated Image Georeference Method for UAVs. In: Nalpantidis, L., Krüger, V., Eklundh, JO., Gasteratos, A. (eds) Computer Vision Systems. ICVS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9163. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20904-3_10
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