Authors:
Renáta Nagyné Elek
1
;
2
;
Artúr I. Károly
1
;
2
;
Tamás Haidegger
1
;
3
and
Péter Galambos
1
;
3
Affiliations:
1
Antal Bejczy Center for Intelligent Robotics, Univ. Research and Innovation Center, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
;
2
Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
;
3
John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary
Keyword(s):
Optical Flow, Ego-motion, Velocity Compensation, Moving Object Segmentation, Robotics.
Abstract:
Optical flow is an established tool for motion detection in the visual scene. While optical flow algorithms usually provide accurate results, they can not make a difference between image-space displacements originated from moving objects in the space and the ego-motion of the moving viewpoint. In the case of optical flow-based moving object segmentation, camera ego-motion compensation is essential. Hereby, we show the preliminary results of a moving viewpoint optical flow ego-motion filtering method, using two dimensional optical flow, image depth information and the camera holder robot arm’s state of motion. We tested its accuracy through physical experiments, where the camera was fixed on a robot arm, and a test object was attached onto an other robot arm. The test object and the camera were moved relative to each other along given trajectories in different scenarios. We validated our method for optical flow background filtering, which showed 94.88% mean accuracy in the different t
est cases. Furthermore, we tested the proposed algorithm for moving object state of motion estimation, which showed high accuracy in the case of translational and rotational movements without depth variation, but lower accuracy, when the relative motion produced change in depth, or the camera and the moving object move in the same directions. The proposed method with future work including outlier filtering and optimisation could become useful in various robot navigation applications and optical flow-based computer vision problems.
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