Patent ID: 11776148

Abstract:
Computing a height of a building is performed by inputting a pair of two-dimensional (2-D) aerial images of a city along with their metadata. Using the metadata, a three-dimensional (3-D) vector from each image toward the location of the camera when each image was taken is determined. A plurality of pairs of corresponding image points from the images are computed, in each pair of image points an image point of one image identifies the same physical point on the building as the second image point of the second image. Next, the images are superimposed, and for each pair of image points, determine the intersection of the 3-D vector of the first image originating at the first image point with the 3-D vector of the second image originating at the second image point. Each intersection is a 3-D position and the height is determined from the median of these 3-D positions.