PRoVisG

Exomars PanCam 3D Vision Workshop, Aberystwyth, UK

Monday, May 11, 2009

The workshop addresses vision data acquisition / processing issues that are relevant for current and mid-term development of PanCam hard- and software, experiment planning, calibration, expected scientific data return quality, as well as the interfaces to other ExoMars components such as operations planning, navigation or other PASTEUR instruments.

The Workshop will take place in the AU PATLab - Planetary Analogue Terrain Laboratory - Hall. Some (short) presentations will be followed by a discussion on the topics presented / questions raised. Rover vision experiments will be conducted after joint agreement on experiment layout.

Main experimental component will be the AU PanCam – analogue Camera (PAC) which contains two Wide-angle RGB 1024x1024 cameras with 34° FOV and 50cm base length, and an HRC- simulating 1024x1024 RGB camera with 5° FOV. Participants are invited to bring their own software for relevant processing (Stereo/WAC-HRC fusion / DEM manipulation / visualization / 3D editing / compression / shape-from-shading / HDR / Bundle block adjustment / etc.). A set of default processing modules will be made available during the workshop in order to generate and visualize DEMs from stereo within reasonable time to evaluate experiment success.

The experiments will be supported by the VICON^® system that enables accurate 3D co-ordinate measurements of target point locations (i.e. PAC stations, distinct objects locations & shape) within almost the entire PATLab region. For 3D data comparison / DEM Ground truth provision, as well as full environment reference 3D reconstruction a Leica^® 3D Laser Scanner is available.

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