Title
Robust Vision-Based Underwater Target Identification and Homing Using Self-Similar Landmarks
Abstract
Next generation Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) will be required to robustly identify underwater targets for tasks such as inspection, localisation and docking. Given their often unstructured operating environments, vision offers enormous potential in underwater navigation over more traditional methods, however, reliable target segmentation often plagues these systems. This paper addresses robust vision-based target recognition by presenting a novel scale and rotationally invariant target design and recognition routine based on Self-Similar Landmarks (SSL) that enables robust target pose estimation with respect to a single camera. These algorithms are applied to an AUV with controllers developed for vision-based docking with the target. Experimental results show that system performs exceptionally on limited processing power and demonstrates how the combined vision and controller systems enables robust target identification and docking in a variety of operating conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-75404-6_5
SPRINGER TRACTS IN ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
vision,ssl,operant conditioning,pose estimation
Computer vision,Control theory,Simulation,Computer science,Underwater navigation,Segmentation,Pose,Vision based,Invariant (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Underwater
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
42
1610-7438
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amaury Nègre11248.88
Cédric Pradalier233938.22
Matthew Dunbabin337338.21