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We explore a new sensor suite to provide a precise and robust navigation information, primarily intended for pedestrian localisation. We use an IMU sensor augmented with an array of magnetometers, called MIMU (for Magneto-Inertial measurement Unit) hereafter, and a single central camera as the vision sensor. The MIMU sensor has been shown in previous work to significantly improve the inertial dead-reckoning...
This paper aims to leverage magnetic information from a Magneto-Inertial Measurement Unit — an IMU sensor augmented with an array of magnetometers, called MIMU hereafter — in a vision/inertial navigation system (VINS). This ego-motion estimation problem is formulated as an optimization over a sliding window fusing data from the MIMU with features tracked in a monocular camera image stream. The novelty...
We present a novel visual-magneto-inertial system for pedestrian indoor navigation. It includes magnetic, inertial and depth sensors integrated into a device that can be hand held by a pedestrian. Our method builds upon a magneto-inertial tachymeter that is able to accurately reconstruct body speed in presence of magnetic gradient and a depth registration algorithm for computing inter-image movement...
This paper considers collaborative stereo-vision as a mean of localization for a fleet of micro-air vehicles (MAV) equipped with monocular cameras, inertial measurement units and sonar sensors. A sensor fusion scheme using an extended Kalman filter is designed to estimate the positions and orientations of all the vehicles from these distributed measurements. The estimation is completed by a formation...
This paper addresses the problem of absolute visual ego-localization of an autonomous vehicle equipped with a monocular camera that has to navigate in an urban environment. The proposed method is based on a combination of: 1) a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) exploiting the spatio-temporal coherency of acquired images and 2) learnt metrics dedicated to robust visual localization in complex scenes, such...
In this paper we present the processing chain for geometric and semantic mapping of a drone environment that we developed for search-and-rescue purposes. A precise 3D modelling of the environment is computed using video and (if available) Lidar data captured during the drone flight. Then semantic mapping is performed by interactive learning on the model, thus allowing generic object detection. Finally,...
This paper considers passive vision for robotics and focuses on devising a real-time process for moving object detection using a stereo rig. As several previous works, our method relies on the use of dense stereo and of optical flow. Observing that the main computational load of existing methods is related to the estimation of the optical flow, we propose to use a fast algorithm based on Lucas-Kanade's...
We propose solutions to provide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) with features to understand the scene below and help the operational planning. First, using a visual mapping of the environnement, interactive learning of specific targets of interest is performed on the ground control station to build semantic maps useful for planning. Then, the learned target detectors are transformed to be applied to...
The navigation of a miniature aerial vehicle (MAV) in GPS-denied environments requires a robust embedded visual localization method. In this paper, we describe a simple but efficient stereo visual odometry algorithm, called eVO, running onboard our quadricopter MAV at video-rate. The proposed eVO algorithm relies on a keyframe scheme which allows to decrease the estimation drift and to reduce the...
We present a robust method for vehicle categorization in aerial images. This approach relies on a multiple-classifier system that merges the answers of classifiers applied at various camera angle incidences. The single classifiers are built by matching 3D-templates to the vehicle silhouettes with a local projection model that is compatible with the assumption of the little knowledge that we have of...
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