TY - GEN
T1 - Positioning and scene analysis from visual motion cues within water column
AU - Negahdaripour, S.
AU - Aykin, M. D.
AU - Babaee, M.
AU - Sinnarajah, S.
AU - Perez, A.
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - Over the last dozen or more years, many applications of vision-based positioning and navigation near the sea bottom and surface have been explored. Mid-water operations have primarily relied on traditional positioning systems, namely INS, DVL, gyros, etc. This paper investigates the application of a vision system for mid-water operations by exploiting stationary features within the water column. The unique nature of these environment-namely, the abundance of randomly distributed targets over a wide field of view and range of depth-are ideal for the application of well-known motion vision methods for 3-D motion estimation and scene analysis. We demonstrate through experiments with water tank and ocean data how various visual motion cues may be used for passive navigation, environmental assessment and target/habitat classification based on visual motion behavior.
AB - Over the last dozen or more years, many applications of vision-based positioning and navigation near the sea bottom and surface have been explored. Mid-water operations have primarily relied on traditional positioning systems, namely INS, DVL, gyros, etc. This paper investigates the application of a vision system for mid-water operations by exploiting stationary features within the water column. The unique nature of these environment-namely, the abundance of randomly distributed targets over a wide field of view and range of depth-are ideal for the application of well-known motion vision methods for 3-D motion estimation and scene analysis. We demonstrate through experiments with water tank and ocean data how various visual motion cues may be used for passive navigation, environmental assessment and target/habitat classification based on visual motion behavior.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855765679
SN - 9781457714276
T3 - OCEANS'11 - MTS/IEEE Kona, Program Book
BT - OCEANS'11 - MTS/IEEE Kona, Program Book
T2 - MTS/IEEE Kona Conference, OCEANS'11
Y2 - 19 September 2011 through 22 September 2011
ER -