Fast Free Floor Detection for Range Cameras

Izaak Van Crombrugge, Luc Mertens, Rudi Penne

2017

Abstract

A robust and fast free floor detection algorithm is indispensable in autonomous or assisted navigation as it labels the drivable surface and marks obstacles. In this paper we propose a simple and fast method to segment the free floor surface in range camera data by calculating the Euclidean distance between every measured point of the point cloud and the ground plane. This method is accurate for planar motion, i.e. as long as the camera stays at a fixed height and angle above the ground plane. This is most often the case in driving mobile platforms in an indoor environment. Given this condition, the ground plane stays invariant in camera coordinates. Obstacles as low as 40mm are reliably detected. The detection works correct even when ’multipath’ errors are present, a typical phenomenon of distance overestimation in corners when using time-of-flight range cameras. To demonstrate the application of our segmentation method, we implemented it to create a simple but accurate navigation map.

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in Harvard Style

Van Crombrugge I., Mertens L. and Penne R. (2017). Fast Free Floor Detection for Range Cameras . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-225-7, pages 509-516. DOI: 10.5220/0006133505090516


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp17,
author={Izaak Van Crombrugge and Luc Mertens and Rudi Penne},
title={Fast Free Floor Detection for Range Cameras},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={509-516},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006133505090516},
isbn={978-989-758-225-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - Fast Free Floor Detection for Range Cameras
SN - 978-989-758-225-7
AU - Van Crombrugge I.
AU - Mertens L.
AU - Penne R.
PY - 2017
SP - 509
EP - 516
DO - 10.5220/0006133505090516