NDLI: Orientation descriptors for localization in urban environments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	David, P. Ho, S.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA (David, P.; Ho, S.)
Abstract	Accurately determining the position and orientation of an observer (a vehicle or a human) in outdoor urban environments is an important and challenging problem. The standard approach is to use the Global Positioning System (GPS), but this system performs poorly near tall buildings where line of sight to a sufficient number of satellites cannot be obtained. Most previous vision-based approaches for localization register ground imagery to a previously generated ground-level model of the environment. Generating such a model can be difficult and time consuming, and is impractical in some environments. Instead, we propose to perform localization by registering a single omnidirectional ground image to a 2D urban terrain model that is easily generated from aerial imagery. We introduce a novel image descriptor that encodes the position and orientation of a camera relative to buildings in the environment. The descriptor is efficiently generated from edges and vanishing points in an omnidirectional image and is registered to descriptors previously generated for the terrain model. Rather than constructing a local CAD-like model of the environment, which is difficult in cluttered environments, our descriptor measures, at equally spaced intervals over the 360° field of view, the orientation of visible building facades projected onto the ground plane (i.e., the building footprints). We evaluate our approach on an urban data set with significant clutter and demonstrate an accuracy of about 1 m, which is an order of magnitude better than commercial GPS operating in open environments.
Starting Page	494
Ending Page	501
File Size	957600
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612844541
ISSN	21530858
e-ISBN	9781612844565
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2011.6094556
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-09-25
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Buildings Cameras Solid modeling Urban areas Three dimensional displays Image segmentation Image edge detection
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Systems Engineering Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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