Stixels motion estimation without optical flow computation

  • Authors:
  • Bertan Günyel;Rodrigo Benenson;Radu Timofte;Luc Van Gool

  • Affiliations:
  • ESAT-PSI-VISICS/IBBT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium,3cap Technologies Gmb, Oberschleißheim, Germany;ESAT-PSI-VISICS/IBBT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;ESAT-PSI-VISICS/IBBT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;ESAT-PSI-VISICS/IBBT, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part VI
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to estimate the motion of objects seen from a stereo rig mounted on a ground mobile robot. We exploit the prior knowledge on ground plane presence and rough shape of objects, to extract a simplified world model, named stixel world. The contribution of this paper is to show that stixels motion can be estimated directly solving a single dynamic programming problem instead of an image wide optical flow computation. We compare this new method with baseline methods, show competitive results quality-wise, and a significant gain speed-wise.