Time-to-Contact from Underwater Images

Laksmita Rahadianti, Fumihiko Sakaue, Jun Sato

2016

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for estimating time-to-contact (TTC) of moving objects and cameras in underwater environments. The time-to-contact is useful for navigating moving vehicles and for avoiding collisions in the 3D space. The existing methods calculate time-to-contact from geometric features of objects such as corners and edges. However, if the cameras and objects are in scattering media, such as fog and water, the degradation of image intensity caused by light scattering makes it difficult to find geometric features in images. Thus, in this paper we propose a method for estimating time-to-contact in scattering media by using the change in image intensity caused by the camera motion.

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Rahadianti L., Sakaue F. and Sato J. (2016). Time-to-Contact from Underwater Images . In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-175-5, pages 671-678. DOI: 10.5220/0005766106710678


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp16,
author={Laksmita Rahadianti and Fumihiko Sakaue and Jun Sato},
title={Time-to-Contact from Underwater Images},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={671-678},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005766106710678},
isbn={978-989-758-175-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 3: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2016)
TI - Time-to-Contact from Underwater Images
SN - 978-989-758-175-5
AU - Rahadianti L.
AU - Sakaue F.
AU - Sato J.
PY - 2016
SP - 671
EP - 678
DO - 10.5220/0005766106710678