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http://dx.doi.org/10.9723/jksiis.2011.16.2.065

VFH-based Navigation using Monocular Vision  

Park, Se-Hyun (대구대학교 정보통신공학부)
Hwang, Ji-Hye (건국대학교 신기술융합학과)
Ju, Jin-Sun (건국대학교 신기술융합학과)
Ko, Eun-Jeong (건국대학교 신기술융합학과)
Ryu, Juang-Tak (대구대학교 전자공학부)
Kim, Eun-Yi (건국대학교 인터넷.미디어공학부)
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Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems / v.16, no.2, 2011 , pp. 65-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a real-time monocular vision based navigation system is developed for the disabled people, where online background learning and vector field histogram are used for identifying obstacles and recognizing avoidable paths. The proposed system is performed by three steps: obstacle classification, occupancy grid map generation and VFH-based path recommendation. Firstly, the obstacles are discriminated from images by subtracting with background model which is learned in real time. Thereafter, based on the classification results, an occupancy map sized at $32{\times}24$ is produced, each cell of which represents its own risk by 10 gray levels. Finally, the polar histogram is drawn from the occupancy map, then the sectors corresponding to the valley are chosen as safe paths. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed system, it was tested with a variety of obstacles at indoors and outdoors, then it showed the a'ccuracy of 88%. Moreover, it showed the superior performance when comparing with sensor based navigation systems, which proved the feasibility of the proposed system in using assistive devices of disabled people.
Keywords
VFH (Vector Field Histogram); Occupancy Grid map; Vision-based navigation; monocular vision; Background classification;
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