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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Stephen J. Raif, Richardson, TX (US);
John J. Coogan, Bedford, TX (US);
Steven B. Seida, Wylie, TX (US);
Paul L. Pryor, Garland, TX (US);
Carlton E. Nance, Rockwall, TX (US);
Wyatt D. Sharp, III, Murphy, TX (US);
Jody D. Verret, Rockwall, TX (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of generating point clouds from passive images. Image clusters are formed, wherein each image cluster includes two or more passive images selected from a set of passive images. Quality of the point cloud that could be generated from each image cluster is predicted for each image cluster based on a performance prediction score for each image cluster. A subset of image clusters is selected for further processing based on their performance prediction scores. A mission-specific quality score is determined for each point cloud generated and the point cloud with the highest quality score is selected for storage.