3D Dynamic Scene Analysis: A Stereo Based Approach

This book describes several approaches to the analysis of moving scenes using information from a stereovision system. In particular two different methods are proposed to deal with long and short sequences of images of an unknown environment including an arbitrary number of rigid and mobile objects. Results obtained from stereovision systems are found to be superior to those from monocular image systems, which are often very sensitive to noise. It is shown that motion estimation can be further improved by the explicit modeling of uncertainty in geometric objects. The techniques developed in this book have been successfully demonstrated with a large number of real images in the context of visual navigation of a mobile robot