In this paper, we address the problem of localizing a camera-equipped Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) flying in urban streets at low altitudes. An appearance-based global positioning system to localize MAVs with respect to the surrounding buildings is introduced. We rely on an air-ground image matching algorithm to search the airborne image of the MAV within a ground-level Street View image database and to detect image matching points. Based on the image matching points, we infer the global position of the MAV by back-projecting the corresponding image points onto a cadastral 3D city model. Furthermore, we describe an algorithm to track the position of the flying vehicle over several frames and to correct the accumulated drift of the visual odometry, whenever a good match is detected between the airborne MAV and the street-level images. The proposed approach is tested on a dataset captured with a small quadroctopter flying in the streets of Zurich.


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    Title :

    Micro air vehicle localization and position tracking from textured 3D cadastral models




    Publication date :

    2014-05-01


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    2496603 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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