Estimação de posição e quantificação de erro utilizando geometria epipolar entre imagens. / Position estimation and error quantification using epipolar geometry between images.

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2007

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Position estimation is the direct result of scene reconstruction, one of computer visions fields. It is also an important information for the control of mechanical systems - specially the autonomous robotic systems. As an engineering application, those systemsperformance must be evaluated in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, measured by processing costs and error quantification. The epipolar geometry is a field of computer vision that supply mathematical formalism and scene reconstruction techniques that are based on the correspondences between two images. Through this formalism it is possible to stipulate the uncertainty of the position estimation methods that are relatively simple and can give good accuracy. Among the autonomous robotic systems, the ROVs - Remotely Operated Vehicles - are of special interest, mostly employed in submarine activities, and whose crescent autonomy demand motivates the development of a vision sensor of low power consumption, flexibility and intelligence. This sensor may be constructed with a CCD camera and the scene reconstruction algorithms based on epipolar geometry. This work aims to build a comparison of practical results of position estimation through epipolar geometry, as part of a vision sensor implementation for autonomous robots. The theory presented in this work comprises of: projective geometry, camera model, epipolar geometry, fundamental matrix, projective reconstruction, metric reconstruction, fundamental matrix algorithms, metric reconstruction algorithms, fundamental matrix uncertainty, and computational complexity. The practical results are based on computer generated simulations and experimental assemblies that emulate practical issues. The position estimation was carried out by MATLAB® 6.5 implementations of the algorithms analyzed in the theoretical part, and the results are compared and analyzed in respect of the error and the execution complexity. The main conclusions are that the best algorithm choice for the implementation of a general purpose vision sensor is the Normalized 8 Point Algorithm, and the usage conditions of each method, besides the special considerations that must be observed at the interpretation of the results.

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computer vision visão computacional estimação de posição geometria epipolar epipolar geometry position estimation

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