In this paper,a new method is presented for 3D motion estimation by image region correspon- dences using stereo cameras.Under the weak perspectivity assumption,we first employ the moment tensor theory(Cyganski and Orr...In this paper,a new method is presented for 3D motion estimation by image region correspon- dences using stereo cameras.Under the weak perspectivity assumption,we first employ the moment tensor theory(Cyganski and Orr)to compute the monocular affine transformations relating images taken by the same camera at different time instants and the binocular affine transformations relating images taken by different cameras at the same time instant.We then show that 3D motion can he recovered from these 2D transformations.A space-time fusion strategy is proposed to aim at robust results.No knowledge of point correspondences is required in the above processes and the computa- lions involved are linear.To find corresponding image regions,new affine invariants,which show stronger invariance,are derived in term of tensor contraction theory.Experiments on real motion images are conducted to verify the proposed method.展开更多
A methodology is proposed to enable real-time evaluation of the observability of local motions,and generate a local observability cost map to enable informed local motion planning in order to avoid potential degradati...A methodology is proposed to enable real-time evaluation of the observability of local motions,and generate a local observability cost map to enable informed local motion planning in order to avoid potential degradation or degeneracy in state estimator performance.The proposed approach leverages efficient numerical techniques in nonlinear observability analysis and motion primitive-based planning technique to realize the local observability prediction with real-time performance.The degradation of the state estimation performance can be readily predicted with the local observability evaluation result.The proposed approach is specialized to a representative optimization-based monocular visual-inertial state estimation formulation and evaluated through simulation and experiments.The experimental results demonstrated the ability of the proposed methodology to correctly anticipate the potential state estimation degradation.展开更多
文摘In this paper,a new method is presented for 3D motion estimation by image region correspon- dences using stereo cameras.Under the weak perspectivity assumption,we first employ the moment tensor theory(Cyganski and Orr)to compute the monocular affine transformations relating images taken by the same camera at different time instants and the binocular affine transformations relating images taken by different cameras at the same time instant.We then show that 3D motion can he recovered from these 2D transformations.A space-time fusion strategy is proposed to aim at robust results.No knowledge of point correspondences is required in the above processes and the computa- lions involved are linear.To find corresponding image regions,new affine invariants,which show stronger invariance,are derived in term of tensor contraction theory.Experiments on real motion images are conducted to verify the proposed method.
文摘A methodology is proposed to enable real-time evaluation of the observability of local motions,and generate a local observability cost map to enable informed local motion planning in order to avoid potential degradation or degeneracy in state estimator performance.The proposed approach leverages efficient numerical techniques in nonlinear observability analysis and motion primitive-based planning technique to realize the local observability prediction with real-time performance.The degradation of the state estimation performance can be readily predicted with the local observability evaluation result.The proposed approach is specialized to a representative optimization-based monocular visual-inertial state estimation formulation and evaluated through simulation and experiments.The experimental results demonstrated the ability of the proposed methodology to correctly anticipate the potential state estimation degradation.