3D Road Surface Reconstruction Lecture
Autonomous Car research and development is booming today, with many companies developing such cars, e.g., TESLA, BMW, MERCEDES, FIAT, TOYOTA, to name a few. Very many application areas emerge from companies like UBER and LYFT, that tend to change the city landscape in the near future, e.g.,
-Car rentals (instead of car purchases)
-Autonomous taxis.
-Autonomous vans for goods transportation.

This lecture overviews 3D Road Surface Reconstruction that has many applications in autonomous car vision and smart city infrastructure inspection. It covers the following topics in detail: Road Surface Reconstruction: Active-sensing-based methods (Laser scanning-based methods, Microsoft Kinect), Passive sensing-based methods (Shape from Shading, Stereo vision). Road Infrastructure reconstruction, SfM for cliff surface reconstruction.