Abstract
The gradient of a road or terrain influences the appropriate speed and power of a vehicle traversing it. Therefore, gradient prediction is necessary if autonomous vehicles are to optimise their locomotion. This paper presents a novel texture-based method for estimating the orientation of planar surfaces under the basic assumption of homogeneity. Based on a backprojection technique, we propose a new method for measuring texture consistency in the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) domain. Texture histograms computed with a new anti-aliasing compensation approach are employed to find the rotation of a planar surface. The proposed method performs well with various types of textured surfaces and outperforms other existing methods with significantly reduced computational complexity up to 35%.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 3372-3376 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781479957514 |
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| Publication status | Published - 28 Jan 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014 |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014 IEEE.
Keywords
- DT-CWT
- orientation estimation
- texture