• DocumentCode
    2514706
  • Title

    Torchlight Navigation

  • Author

    Felsberg, Michael ; Larsson, Fredrik ; Han, Wang ; Ynnerman, Anders ; Schon, Thomas B.

  • Author_Institution
    Linkoping Univ., Linkoping, Sweden
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-26 Aug. 2010
  • Firstpage
    302
  • Lastpage
    306
  • Abstract
    A common computer vision task is navigation and mapping. Many indoor navigation tasks require depth knowledge of flat, unstructured surfaces (walls, floor, ceiling). With passive illumination only, this is an ill-posed problem. Inspired by small children using a torchlight, we use a spotlight for active illumination. Using our torchlight approach, depth and orientation estimation of unstructured, flat surfaces boils down to estimation of ellipse parameters. The extraction of ellipses is very robust and requires little computational effort.
  • Keywords
    computer vision; active illumination; common computer vision task; ellipse extraction; ellipse parameters; flat surfaces; indoor navigation tasks; mapping; passive illumination; spotlight; torchlight navigation; unstructured surfaces; Cameras; Computer vision; Estimation; Lighting; Mirrors; Navigation; Three dimensional displays; active illumination; ellipses; plane estimation; pose estimation; torchlight;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010 20th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7542-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.2010.83
  • Filename
    5597792