Novel Active-Vision-Based Visual-Threat-Cue for Autonomous Navigation Tasks

Abstract

This paper presents a new visual motion cue, we call the Visual Threat Cue (VTC) that provides some measure for a relative change in range as well as clearance between a 3D surface and a fixing observer in motion. The VTC corresponds to visual fields surrounding a moving observer. The fields are time-based imaginary 3-D surfaces that move with the observer. They are analogous to equi-potential fields of an electric dipole. A practical method to extract the VTC is presented. The approach is independent of the 3D surface texture and needs no optical flow information, 3D reconstruction, segmentation, feature tracking or pre-processing. This algorithm to extract the VTC was applied to several indoor as well as outdoor real images of textures, where we observed a similar behavior for most of the textures employed.

Cite

Text

Kundur and Raviv. "Novel Active-Vision-Based Visual-Threat-Cue for Autonomous Navigation Tasks." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996. doi:10.1109/CVPR.1996.517135

Markdown

[Kundur and Raviv. "Novel Active-Vision-Based Visual-Threat-Cue for Autonomous Navigation Tasks." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1996.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1996/kundur1996cvpr-novel/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.1996.517135

BibTeX

@inproceedings{kundur1996cvpr-novel,
  title     = {{Novel Active-Vision-Based Visual-Threat-Cue for Autonomous Navigation Tasks}},
  author    = {Kundur, Sridhar R. and Raviv, Daniel},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {1996},
  pages     = {606-612},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.1996.517135},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/1996/kundur1996cvpr-novel/}
}