Dentro del Máster Universitario en Robótica, Gráficos y Visión por Computador, el próximo jueves día 19 de septiembre a las 14 horas Faraz Mirzaei impartirá el seminario Google Geo: How to Provide the Freshest and Most Accurate Photogrammetric Reconstruction of the Earth Surface at a Global Scale.
Será en el aula A.07 del Ed. Ada Byron
Abstract: In this talk, I will overview our work at Google Geo to get global maps available to a wide range of users on their phones, through the web, or through the Google Earth Engine APIs. I will discuss the high level journey from raw imagery to photogrammetric reconstruction. I will discuss algorithmic challenges involved in quantifying, measuring, and achieving high accuracy modeling of the surface of the Earth.
I will provide a brief introduction to frames of references, International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), measurement epoches, earth ellipsoid and geoid, tectonic shifts, earthquakes, subsidence (like CA central valley), and earth tides. And how each of these pose a challenge in estimating a fresh topographic map of the Earth’s surface.
Bio: Faraz Mirzaei, received in M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota (USA). Previously, he obtained his degree at Shiraz University (Iran). From 2012 to 2015, he worked at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley, and he is currently the Technical Lead for Photogrammetric Quality Metrics at Google, Mountain View. His interests include photogrammetry, mapping, map making, surveying, inertial navigation, computer vision, and perspective geometry.
