On-Board Monocular Vision System Pose Estimation through a Dense Optical Flow

Abstract. This paper presents a robust technique for estimating onboard monocular vision system pose. The proposed approach is based on a dense optical flow that is robust against shadows, reflections and illumination changes. A RANSAC based scheme is used to cope with the outliers in the optical flow. The proposed technique is intended to be used in driver assistance systems for applications such as obstacle or pedestrian detection. Experimental results on different scenarios, both from synthetic and real sequences, shows usefulness of the proposed approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICIAR
• Authors: Naveen Onkarappa, Angel Domingo Sappa
• Keywords: Dense Optical flow, ICIAR 2010, Image Analysis, Onboard Monocular Vision, Optical flow