Polarized Optical-Flow Gyroscope

Masada Tzabari, Yoav Y. Schechner

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Abstract

We merge by generalization two principles of passive optical sensing of motion. One is common spatially resolved imaging, where motion induces temporal readout changes at high-contrast spatial features, as used in traditional optical-flow. The other is the polarization compass, where axial rotation induces temporal readout changes due to the change of incoming polarization angle, relative to the camera frame. The latter has traditionally been modeled for uniform objects. This merger generalizes the brightness constancy assumption and optical-flow, to handle polarization. It also generalizes the polarization compass concept to handle arbitrarily textured objects. This way, scene regions having partial polarization contribute to motion estimation, irrespective of their texture and non-uniformity. As an application, we derive and demonstrate passive sensing of differential ego-rotation around the camera optical axis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2020 - 16th European Conference, Proceedings
EditorsAndrea Vedaldi, Horst Bischof, Thomas Brox, Jan-Michael Frahm
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages363-381
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783030585167
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Aug 202028 Aug 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12361 LNCS

Conference

Conference16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period23/08/2028/08/20

Keywords

  • Bio-inspired
  • Low level vision
  • Self-calibration

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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