Real-Time Feature Matching in Image Sequences for Non-Structured Environments. Applications to Vehicle Guidance

  • Authors:
  • Joaquí/n Ferruz;Aní/bal Ollero

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Ingenierí/a de Sistemas y Automá/tica, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos, 41092 Sevilla, Spain/ e-mail: ferruz@c ...;Departamento de Ingenierí/a de Sistemas y Automá/tica, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos, 41092 Sevilla, Spain/ e-mail: aollero@ ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes an integrated vehicle control system with visual feedback. A general-purpose, low-level feature matching method, able to work in real time without any strict assumptions on the environment structure or camera parameters, generates low-level matching results, which are used as source of data for applications like mobile object tracking, among others. A generalized predictive path-tracking control approach keeps the vehicle on the trajectory defined by the moving target. In the low-level matching process, block-based features (windows) are selected and tracked along a stream of monocular images; least residual square error and similarity between clusters of features are used as constraints to select the right matching pair between multiple candidates. Real-time performance is achieved through optimized algorithms and a parallel DSP-based multiprocessor system implementation. Object detection and tracking is motion-based, and does not require a predefined model of the target. The integrated control system has been tested on the ROMEO-3R experimental vehicle.