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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Hrl Laboratories, Llc, Malibu, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andras Horvath, Budapest, HU;

Shankar Rao, Agoura Hills, CA (US);

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06T 7/174 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/174 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for improving computational efficiency for egomotion estimation includes detecting a pair of consecutive images, and estimating a rotation angle and a two dimensional translation vector that best models the motion between the image frames. The pair of images are each divided into overlapping image patches, and then an efficient projected correlation approach is used to estimate a local two dimensional translation vector for each image patch. The translation vectors from all the patches form a vector field, and then trimmed-mean method is used to robustly and efficiently estimate the rotation angle and the two dimensional translation that best models the egomotion of the detector, which may be a camera.


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