Tracking Orthogonal Vanishing Points in Video Sequences for a Reliable Camera Orientation in Manhattan World

Wael Elloumi (1) , Sylvie Treuillet (1) , Rémy Leconge (1)

1 PRISME - Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, Mécanique et Energétique

This paper proposes an algorithm pipeline for estimating the camera orientation based on vanishing points computation targeting pedestrian navigation assistance in Manhattan World. Inspired from some of published methods, the proposed pipeline introduces a novel sampling strategy among finite and infinite vanishing points and a tracking along a video sequence to enforce the robustness by extracting the three most pertinent orthogonal directions while preserving a short processing time for real-time application. Experiments on real images and video sequences show that the proposed heuristic strategy for selecting orthogonal vanishing points is pertinent as our algorithm gives better results than the recently published RNS optimal method [16], in particular for the yaw angle, which is actually essential for navigation task.

Mots clés: Vanishing Points; Camera Orientation; Video Sequences; Manhattan World.; Manhattan World

Domaines: Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]

Wael Elloumi, Sylvie Treuillet, Rémy Leconge. Tracking Orthogonal Vanishing Points in Video Sequences for a Reliable Camera Orientation in Manhattan World. International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2012), Oct 2012, Chongqing, China. pp.5. ⟨hal-00771525⟩