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1. E. Menegatti - Omni Vision 32 Map matching
Image-based localization
Observation of Optical Flow
Biomimetic Behaviours
Integration of Omni-vision with other sensors:
Sonar
Laser range finder
Outdoor Navigation
SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping)
Environment reconstruction & 3D mapping
Miscellanea
Omni-Vision for Mobile Robots
2. E. Menegatti - Omni Vision 33 Navigation/Localization Tricks Invariance of Azimuth
Rotational Invariance
Vertical Lines mapped in radial lines
Circumferential continuity
Periodicity of the image
Robustness to occlusion
3. 34 Invariance of Azimuth
4. 35 Rotational Invariance
5. E. Menegatti - Omni Vision 36 Vertical Lines ? radial lines
6. 37 Continuity & Periodicity
7. 38 Robustness to occlusion Thanks to the wide FOV, usually occluding objects do not change much the image
Several similarity measures have been proved to be robust to occlusion
Extreme case presented by Jogan & Leonardis
8. 39 Applications
9. 40 Map matching - 1 Yagi used the vertical edges of the objects to find position of the robot on a map
Edges tracking
10. 41 Map matching - 2 Menegatti et al. used the Chromatic Transitions of Interest to perform scan matching
Monte-Carlo Localization Algorithm
Almost the same approach used with Laser range Finders
11. 42 Image-based navigation - 1 Ishiguro and Menegatti:
FFT magnitude for position
FFT phase for heading
Self-organization of the memory
Image-based Localisation
Hierarchical Localization
Image-Based Monte Carlo Localisation
12. 43 Image-based navigation - 2 Kröse et al:
Used Principal Component Analysis to extract linear feature
Dataset described in term of eigenimages
Probabilistic localization
13. 44 Image-based navigation - 3 Gross et al:
Used slices of the panoramic cylinder
Slices confronted via colour histograms
Hybrid map: topological map aumented with metric information
14. 45 Observation of Optical Flow Ishiguro used:
Foci of Expansion (FOE) to estimate relative positions
No encoder info
Svoboda used:
Optical flow to discriminate translation and rotations
15. 46 Biomimetic Behaviours Argyros, A.A.; Tsakiris, D.P.; Groyer, C.
Biomimetic centering behavior
Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE?Publication Date: Dec. 2004?. Vol.11, Iss. 4 pp.21- 30
M.V. Srinivasan. A new class of mirrors for wide-angle imaging. Proceedings, IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision and Camera Networks. Madison, Wisconsin, USA., June 2003.
G.L. Barrows, J.S. Chahl and M.V. Srinivasan (2003) Biomimetic visual sensing and flight control. The Aeronautical Journal, London: The Royal Aeronautical Society, vol, 107, No. 1069, pp. 159-168.
16. 47 Integration with other sensors Shin-Chieh Wei, Yasushi Yagi and Masahiko Yachida,“On-line Map Building Based On Ultrasonic and Image Sensor, 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation(ICRA-98) 1998
17. 48 Outdoor Navigation - 1 Omnidirectional Vision for Road Following with NN:
Road classification
Steering angle
18. 49 Outdoor Navigation - 2 Paul Blaer and Peter Allen
“Topological Mobile Robot Localization Using Fast Vision Techniques”
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation 2002
19. 50 Outdoor Navigation - 3 José-Joel Gonzalez-Barbosa and Simon Lacroix
Rover localization in natural environments by indexing panoramic imagesProceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation 2002
20. 51 SLAM Michael Kaess and Frank Dellaert,?Visual SLAM with a Multi-Camera Rig,?Georgia Tech Technical Report GIT-GVU-06-06, 2006
Thomas Lemaire, Simon Lacroix.
Long Term SLAM with panoramic vision. Submitted to Journal of Fields Robotics special issue on "SLAM in the Fields".
21. 52 Environment Reconstruction
22. 53 Ritagliare le immagini???Ritagliare le immagini???
23. 54 One Static Vision Agent (omnidirectional camera)
Five Static Acustic Agents (steerable microphone arrays)
One Mobile Vision Agent (robot with omnidirectional camera)
24. 55 The End!
25. 56 References
26. 57 References