Vision navigation using environmental features has been widely applied when satellite signals are not available. However, the matching performance of traditional environmental features such as keypoints degrades significantly in weakly textured areas, deteriorating navigation performance. Further, the user needs to evaluate and assure feature matching quality. In this paper, a new feature, named Line Segment Intersection Feature (LSIF), is proposed to solve the availability problem in weakly textured regions. Then a combined descriptor involving global structure and local gradient is designed for similarity comparison. To achieve reliable point-to-point matching, a coarse-to-fine matching algorithm is developed, which improves the performance of the point set matching algorithm. Finally, a framework of matching quality evaluation is proposed to assure matching performance. Through the comparison, it is demonstrated that the proposed new feature has superior overall performance especially on correctly matched numbers of keypoints and matching correctness. Also, using real image sets with weak texture, it is shown that the proposed LSIF can achieve improved navigation solutions with high continuity and accuracy.


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    Title :

    New Environmental Line Feature-based Vision Navigation: Design and Analysis



    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2017




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    BKL:    55.86 Schiffsverkehr, Schifffahrt / 53.84 Ortungstechnik, Radartechnik / 42.89 Zoologie: Sonstiges / 55.54 Flugführung / 42.89 / 53.84 / 55.20 / 55.86 / 55.20 Straßenfahrzeugtechnik / 55.44 Schiffsführung / 55.54 / 55.44
    Local classification TIB:    275/5680/7035



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