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Time-to-collision can be directly measured from a spatio-temporal image sequence obtained from an uncalibrated camera. This it would appear to offer a simple, elegant measurement for use in obstacle avoidance. However, previous techniques for computing time to collision from an optical flow have proven impractical for real applications.
This paper present a new approach for computing time to collision (TTC) based on the idea of measuring the rate of change of the ”intrinsic scale”. Intrinsic scale is a geometric invariant that is valid at most points in an image, and can be rapidly determined using a multi-resolution pyramid.
In this paper we develop the approach and demonstrate its feasibility by comparing the results with range measurements obtained from a laser ranging device on a moving vehicle. Experimental results show that this is a simple method to obtain reliable TTC with a low computational cost.
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Nègre, A., Braillon, C., Crowley, J.L., Laugier, C. (2008). Real-Time Time-to-Collision from Variation of Intrinsic Scale. In: Khatib, O., Kumar, V., Rus, D. (eds) Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77457-0_8
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