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Trajectory Estimation Using Relative Distances Extracted from Inter-image Homographies

Wadenbäck, Mårten LU and Heyden, Anders LU orcid (2014) 11th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2014) p.232-237
Abstract
The main idea of this paper is to use distances between camera positions to recover the trajectory of a mobile robot. We consider a mobile platform equipped with a single fixed camera using images of the floor and their associated inter-image homographies to find these distances. We show that under the assumptions that the camera is rigidly mounted with a constant tilt and travelling at a constant height above the floor, the distance between two camera positions may be expressed in terms of the condition number of the inter-image homography. Experiments are conducted on synthetic data to verify that the derived distance formula gives distances close to the true ones and is not too sensitive to noise. We also describe how the robot... (More)
The main idea of this paper is to use distances between camera positions to recover the trajectory of a mobile robot. We consider a mobile platform equipped with a single fixed camera using images of the floor and their associated inter-image homographies to find these distances. We show that under the assumptions that the camera is rigidly mounted with a constant tilt and travelling at a constant height above the floor, the distance between two camera positions may be expressed in terms of the condition number of the inter-image homography. Experiments are conducted on synthetic data to verify that the derived distance formula gives distances close to the true ones and is not too sensitive to noise. We also describe how the robot trajectory may be represented as a graph with edge lengths determined by the distances computed using the formula above, and present one possible method to construct this graph given some of these distances. The experiments show promising results. (Less)
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Autonomous Navigation, Trajectory Recovery, Homography, Rigid Graphs, Tilted Camera
host publication
Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2014 Canadian Conference on
pages
6 pages
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
11th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2014)
conference dates
2014-05-06 - 2014-05-09
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  • wos:000341646300032
  • scopus:84902284464
ISBN
978-1-4799-4338-8 (print)
DOI
10.1109/CRV.2014.39
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ENGROSS
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English
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  abstract     = {{The main idea of this paper is to use distances between camera positions to recover the trajectory of a mobile robot. We consider a mobile platform equipped with a single fixed camera using images of the floor and their associated inter-image homographies to find these distances. We show that under the assumptions that the camera is rigidly mounted with a constant tilt and travelling at a constant height above the floor, the distance between two camera positions may be expressed in terms of the condition number of the inter-image homography. Experiments are conducted on synthetic data to verify that the derived distance formula gives distances close to the true ones and is not too sensitive to noise. We also describe how the robot trajectory may be represented as a graph with edge lengths determined by the distances computed using the formula above, and present one possible method to construct this graph given some of these distances. The experiments show promising results.}},
  author       = {{Wadenbäck, Mårten and Heyden, Anders}},
  booktitle    = {{Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2014 Canadian Conference on}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-4799-4338-8 (print)}},
  keywords     = {{Autonomous Navigation; Trajectory Recovery; Homography; Rigid Graphs; Tilted Camera}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{232--237}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Trajectory Estimation Using Relative Distances Extracted from Inter-image Homographies}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CRV.2014.39}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/CRV.2014.39}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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