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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2021
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Ramona Optics Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Kevin Zhou, Durham, NC (US);
Colin Cooke, Durham, NC (US);
Jaehee Park, Durham, NC (US);
Ruobing Qian, Durham, NC (US);
Roarke Horstmeyer, Durham, NC (US);
Joseph Izatt, Durham, NC (US);
Sina Farsiu, Durham, NC (US);
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC (US);
RAMONA OPTICS INC., Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
A method of mesoscopic photogrammetry can be carried out using a set of images captured from a camera on a mobile computing device. Upon receiving the set of images, the method generates a composite image, which can include applying homographic rectification to warp all images of the set of images onto a common plane; applying a rectification model to undo perspective distortion in each image of the set of images; and applying an undistortion model for adjusting for camera imperfections of a camera that captured each image of the set of images. A height map is generated co-registered with the composite image, for example, by using an untrained CNN whose weights/parameters are optimized in order to optimize the height map. The height map and the composite image can be output for display.