Chen, Z., Pears, N. and Liang, B. (2006) Monocular Obstacle Detection using Reciprocal-polar Rectification. Image and Vision Computing, 24 (12). pp. 1301-1312. ISSN 0262-8856
Abstract
Our obstacle detection method is applicable to deliberative translation motion of a mobile robot and, in such motion, the epipole of each image of an image pair is coincident and termed the focus of expansion (FOE). We present an accurate method for computing the FOE and then we use this to apply a novel rectification to each image, called a reciprocal-polar (RP) rectification. When robot translation is parallel to the ground, as with a mobile robot, ground plane image motion in RP-space is a pure shift along an RP image scan line and hence can be recovered by a process of 1D correlation, even over large image displacements and without the need for corner matches. Furthermore, we show that the magnitude of these shifts follows a sinusoidal form along the second (orientation) dimension of the RP image. This gives the main result that ground plane motion over RP image space forms a 3D sinusoidal manifold. Simultaneous ground plane pixel grouping and recovery of the ground plane motion thus amounts to finding the FOE and then robustly fitting a 3D sinusoid to shifts of maximum correlation in RP space. The phase of the recovered sinusoid corresponds to the orientation of the vanishing line of the ground plane and the amplitude is related to the magnitude of the robot/camera translation. Recovered FOE, vanishing line and sinusoid amplitude fully define the ground plane motion (homography) across a pair of images and thus obstacles and ground plane can be segmented without any explicit knowledge of either camera parameters or camera motion.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Homography; Fundamental matrix; Obstacle avoidance; Segmentation; Reciprocal-polar rectification; Image rectification |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) |
Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2009 15:33 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2009 15:33 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2006.04.007 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.04.007 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:6359 |