Ground plane segmentation for mobile robot visual navigation

Abstract
We describe a method of mobile robot monocular vi- sual navigation, which uses multiple visual cues to de- tect and segment the ground plane in the robot's eld of view. Corner points are tracked through an image sequence and grouped into coplanar regions using a method which we call an H-based tracker. The H-based tracker employs planar homographys and is initialised by 5-point planar projective invariants. This allows us to detect ground plane patches and the colour within such patches is subsequently modelled. These patches are grown by colour classication to give a ground plane segmentation, which is then used as an input to a new variant of the articial potential eld algorithm.

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