Aerial video mosaicking using binary feature tracking

Breton Minnehan; Andreas Savakis

doi:10.1117/12.2177411

19 May 2015 Aerial video mosaicking using binary feature tracking

Breton Minnehan, Andreas Savakis

Proceedings Volume 9460, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications XII; 94600E (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2177411
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2015, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are becoming an increasingly attractive platform for many applications, as their cost decreases and their capabilities increase. Creating detailed maps from aerial data requires fast and accurate video mosaicking methods. Traditional mosaicking techniques rely on inter-frame homography estimations that are cascaded through the video sequence. Computationally expensive keypoint matching algorithms are often used to determine the correspondence of keypoints between frames. This paper presents a video mosaicking method that uses an object tracking approach for matching keypoints between frames to improve both efficiency and robustness. The proposed tracking method matches local binary descriptors between frames and leverages the spatial locality of the keypoints to simplify the matching process. Our method is robust to cascaded errors by determining the homography between each frame and the ground plane rather than the prior frame. The frame-to-ground homography is calculated based on the relationship of each point’s image coordinates and its estimated location on the ground plane. Robustness to moving objects is integrated into the homography estimation step through detecting anomalies in the motion of keypoints and eliminating the influence of outliers. The resulting mosaics are of high accuracy and can be computed in real time.

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Breton Minnehan and Andreas Savakis "Aerial video mosaicking using binary feature tracking", Proc. SPIE 9460, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Applications XII, 94600E (19 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2177411

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Video

Detection and tracking algorithms

Binary data

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Video surveillance

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