The NEANIAS UW-MOS service (U2 - Seafloor mosaicking from optical data), developed by Coronis Computing S.L., deals with optical mapping in underwater environments. UW-MOS provides an operational solution for large area representation of the seafloor addressing also visibility limitations from the underwater medium.
UW-MOS is composed of several sub-services or tasks to deal with the underwater mapping problem from images:
- Camera calibration
- Image undirstortion
- Image enhancement
- Image data quality check
- 2D image mosaicking
- 3D reconstruction
The service is based on Coronis in-house solutions and some other commonly used open source libraries from the Computer Vision community (OpenCV, OpenMVG, OpenMVS, …). The user is allowed to launch more than one task at the same time, also the service can be used with a REST API based on OpenAPI v3.0.2 specifications.
The UW-MOS service is the first service that provides an end-to-end solution for building large scale maps from underwater optical images, using either 2D mosaicking or 3D reconstruction techniques freely on the cloud, without requiring any local software installation. The service adapts to the degree of expertise of the user. Therefore, a non-expert user may just upload a set of images and obtain a map, while an expert user will find tools suited for mastering the mapping process and obtaining the best results. Within these tools, the data quality check and the underwater image enhancement methods are specifically devised for our service and, consequently, they are not present in any non-commercial nor commercial desktop solutions solving this same problem.
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