Affine trackability for landmark selection in natural environment - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Affine trackability for landmark selection in natural environment

Nicolas Vandapel and R. Chatila
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 37 - 42, September, 2002

Abstract

In this article we propose a method for landmark selection and tracking in natural environments. Landmarks are not specific 3D objects, but an image area that can be tracked over a sequence of monocular images. No assumption is made a priori on landmarks. The algorithm selects areas in a monocular black and white image sequence that have an affine trackability property. A measure of affine trackability is proposed for selection and affine tracking. Initial experimental results are presented.

BibTeX

@conference{Vandapel-2002-8587,
author = {Nicolas Vandapel and R. Chatila},
title = {Affine trackability for landmark selection in natural environment},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2002},
month = {September},
volume = {1},
pages = {37 - 42},
}