NDLI: Horizon constraint for unambiguous UAV navigation in planar scenes

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Oreifej, O. Lobo, N. Shah, M.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Computer Vision Lab, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA (Oreifej, O.; Lobo, N.; Shah, M.)
Abstract	When the UAV goes to high altitudes such that the observed surface of the earth becomes planar, the structure and motion recovery of the earth's moving plane becomes ambiguous. This planar degeneracy has been pointed out very often in the literature; therefore, current navigation methods either completely fail or give many confusing solutions in such scenario. Interestingly, the horizon line in planar scenes is straight and distinctive; hence, easily detected. Therefore, we show in this paper that the horizon line provides two degrees of freedom that control the relative orientation between the camera coordinate system and the local surface of earth. The recovered degrees of freedom help linearize and disambiguate the planar flow, and therefore we obtain a unique solution for the UAV motion estimation. Unlike previous work which used the horizon to provide the roll angle and the pitch percentage and only employed them for flight stability, we extract the exact angles and directly use them to estimate the ego motion. Additionally, we propose a novel horizon detector based on the maximum a posteriori estimation of both motion and appearance features which outperforms the other detectors in planar scenarios. We thoroughly experimented on the proposed method against information from GPS and gyroscopes, and obtained promising results.
Starting Page	1159
Ending Page	1165
File Size	2036381
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612843865
ISSN	10504729
e-ISBN	9781612843858
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979586
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-05-09
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Equations Mathematical model Cameras Motion estimation Adaptive optics Estimation Navigation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software

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