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标题：Good Sample Consensus Estimation of 2D-Homographies for Vehicle Movement Detection from Thermal Videos
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作者：E. Michaelsen ; U. Stilla
期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2003
卷号：XXXIV-3/W8
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：In this contribution we describe a method to assess the activity of vehicles based on airborne image sequences taken by an infrared camera. Active vehicles often appear as a configuration of a dark and a bright spot close to each other. The sensor movement is inferred from image sequences. Due to the fast velocity of the platform estimations of vehicle movements require a precise measurement of the sensor movement. The camera may be tilted with the aircraft giving arbitrarily oblique views. Camera movements are treated as projective 2D-homographies. For the search of a subset of image point correspondences that is free of outliers and gives a precise estimate of the movement we use a production system implementing good sample consensus (GSAC). This new method is derived from the well known RANSAC-decisions and improves them by preferring good samples to random samples. As assessment criterion for minimal samples the area of the smallest triangle in the sample is used. We motivate the criterion for the quality of samples by error propagation through the estimated homography. A comparison is made with other robust estimation techniques namly RANSAC and iterative re-weighted least squares
关键词：Infrared surveillance; Machine vision; Object recognition; Urban areas; Vehicles; Robust estimation