Extract orientation data from geotagged images in Matlab

Hi all,

I am trying to read/extract yaw pitch roll values from metadata stores at aerial images. The images were taken by DJI drones. It seems that imfinfo, rawinfo functions cannot do it. What I can get is GPS infromation only, no orientation data is available. Some one knows any function from Matlab work for this? Thanks

Answer 1

[Suraj]

Hi Kuzan

I understand that you're trying to read yaw, pitch, roll values from images captured by a DJI drone.

Starting with R2023a, you can use the "imfinfo" function to read XMP metadata from JPEG files which includes gimbal and flight speed metadata that is present in images taken by a DJI drone.

You can use the following code snippet to extract the mentioned data -

metadata = imfinfo('filename.jpg');
metadata.XMPData.drone_dji

Here's the output from a sample image I tried:

Useful links -

• "imfinfo()" documentation

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Suraj.