The motion of an imaging sensor causes each imaged point of the seem to describe a time trajectory on the image plane. The trajectories of all imaged points are reminiscent of a flow (eg, of liquid) which is the source of the term "optical flow". Optical-flow ranging is a method by which the stream of two-dimensional images obtained from a forward-looking forward-moving passive sensor is used to compute range to points in the field of view. Another well-known ranging method consists of triangulation based on stereo images obtained from at least two stationary sensors. In this paper we analyze the potential accuracies of a combined optical flow and stereo passive-ranging system in the context of helicopter nap-of-the-earth obstacle avoidance. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is developed for the combined system under the assumption of a random angular misalignment common to both cameras of a stereo pair. It is shown that the range accuracy degradations caused by misalignment is negligible for a combined optical-flow and stereo system as compared with a monocular optical-flow system.
Error Analysis of Combined Optical-Flow and Stereo Passive Ranging
1992-10-01
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Error analysis of combined optical-flow and stereo passive ranging
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