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Concurrent adjustment of active and passive optical sensors with GNSS and raw inertial data

Mouzakidou, Kyriaki  
2025

This research focuses on augmenting the quality of digital mapping, notably from airborne sensors: camera and laser scanners. Progress is achieved by a joint combination of all critical observations in a common estimation scheme, called Dynamic Network (DN) or factor-graph. While earlier DN implementations treated imagery and lidar point-clouds independently, this thesis advances the methodology by integrating both datasets concurrently within a unified optimization framework. This research first investigates single-domain constraints, i.e. pixel-to-pixel (2D-2D) and point-to-point (3D-3D), in combination with satellite positioning (GNSS) and raw inertial observations. The methodology is then extended to cross-domain modeling by introducing a pixel-to-point (2D-3D) observation model, that enables direct coupling between images and point-clouds, starting with emulated data to establish theoretical observability. The extraction of 2Dâ 3D correspondences is realized first via domain-conversion techniques, i.e., 3D-3D links between dense image matching and lidar point-clouds or 2D-2D links between images and "rasterized" lidar clouds, and then via direct "learned methods". Results of single-domain constraints show considerable improvements in geo-referencing accuracy for inertial sensors of lower quality, as those used on smaller drones. The combined use of both 2D-2D and 3D-3D constraints improves the in-flight estimation of auxiliary parameters (as those related to system mounting - boresight), formally requiring specialized calibrations. Cross-domain conditioning shows great potential for further significant improvement of the geo-referencing accuracy when integrated with low-quality inertial sensors. Among the 2D-3D correspondence extraction techniques, those based on image and lidar clouds appear to be the most promising. The findings are supported by validations on data with modern sensors operated on a helicopter and an aircraft.

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Type
doctoral thesis
DOI
10.5075/epfl-thesis-10423
Author(s)
Mouzakidou, Kyriaki  

EPFL

Advisors
Skaloud, Jan  
Jury

Prof. Mirko Kovac (président) ; Prof. Jan Skaloud (directeur de thèse) ; Prof. François Golay, Prof. Christian Heipke, Dr Fabio Remondino (rapporteurs)

Date Issued

2025

Publisher

EPFL

Publisher place

Lausanne

Public defense year

2025-10-17

Thesis number

10423

Total of pages

185

Subjects

Sensor-fusion

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Photogrammetry

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Lidar

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Dynamic networks

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Cross-domain matching

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Pixel-to-point features

EPFL units
ESO  
Faculty
ENAC  
School
IIE  
Doctoral School
EDCE  
Available on Infoscience
October 14, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/254953
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