Presentation 2004/9/3
Dominant plane detection from optical flow for robot navigation
Naoya OHNISHI, Atsushi IMIYA,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we develop an algorithm for dominant plane detection using the optical flow observed by means of a vision system mounted on an autonomous mobile robot. The dominant plane estimation is an essential task for the autonomous navigation and the path planning of the mobile robot, since the dominant plane occupies the largest domain in the image and the robot moves on the dominant plane. We show that the points on the dominant plane in a pair of two successive images are combined with an affine transformation if the mobile robot obtains successive images for optical flow computation. Therefore, our algorithm detects the dominant plane from images observed by an uncalibrated camera without any assumptions of camera displacement. We experiment with the detection of the dominant plane using a real image sequence and evaluate an error with a test image sequence.
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Keyword(in English) Robot vision / Optical flow / Dominant plane / Homography
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Conference Date 2004/9/3(1days)
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Title (in English) Dominant plane detection from optical flow for robot navigation
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Keyword(1) Robot vision
Keyword(2) Optical flow
Keyword(3) Dominant plane
Keyword(4) Homography
1st Author's Name Naoya OHNISHI
1st Author's Affiliation School of Science and Technology, Chiba University()
2nd Author's Name Atsushi IMIYA
2nd Author's Affiliation IMIT
Date 2004/9/3
Paper # PRMU2004-60
Volume (vol) vol.104
Number (no) 290
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 8
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