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- the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for localising a vehicle along a route.
- the present inventors leverage a VO system to synthesise a continuous image strip of the road as seen from above, a synthetic local orthographic image.
- This strip need not be metrically correct over large scales (100m) but locally it provides an excellent template against which to match views obtained during subsequent traversals.
- the vehicle pose is not obtained with a feature based registration technique. Instead, the vehicle pose is obtained relative to a survey trajectory by maximising the mutual information between synthetic local orthographic images and a current, live view.
- the synthetic images allow localisation when traveling in either direction over the road surface. With this in hand global localisation is possible if the survey vehicle's trajectory has been post processed optimised into a single global frame.
- a method for localizing a vehicle along a route comprising:
- the method of the present invention replaces the previously used aerial images with synthetic local orthographic images of the route.
- these images may be generated by a survey vehicle and vehicle localization for subsequent traversals of a route is done relative to the survey vehicles trajectory.
- This approach allows generation of orthographic images under bridges, trees and in man-made structures such as multi story car parks and allows for a more accurate pose estimation than that exhibited by other approaches using aerial images.
- This method also has the advantage that only things which can be seen from a road vehicles perspective are included in the images, excluding roof tops and grassy fields etc.
- the plurality of orthographic images of the route collectively comprise a continuous, overhead image of the route.
- the plurality of orthographic images preferably comprise a continuous overhead image strip of the route, the vehicle only need consider the section of the strip in its vicinity.
- the relation between the orthographic images and the current view preferably comprises a comparison of the mutual information between the orthographic images and the current view.
- the orthographic images may be represented relative to a survey vehicle trajectory which is not necessarily metrically correct over large scales.
- the synthetic orthographic image generation is therefore not tied to a global frame, so does not require metric global consistency.
- Synthetic orthographic images are generated at a resolution two orders of magnitude higher than the best available aerial images (5mm per pixel). Accordingly, subsequent traversals of surveyed routes by a follow vehicle can then be localized against the survey trajectory using these high resolution, high fidelity orthographic images.
- the orthographic images created during the survey are obtained with a stereo camera, mounted on a survey vehicle.
- the stereo camera comprises at least a first and second imaging portion, such as a first and second camera, which are used to synthesise the orthographic images.
- the first imaging portion is arranged to image at least a portion of a route track and at least a portion of a route environment
- the second imaging portion is preferably arranged to image only the route track. It is desirable that objects in the environment of the route, such as off the road are observed in the stereo images, as this improves the accuracy of the visual odometry.
- an apparatus for localizing a vehicle along a route comprising
- a camera for obtaining images of the route as the vehicle traverses the route
- a repository for storing orthographic images of the route, obtained during a survey of the route
- a processor for resolving a pose of the vehicle along the route by processing images obtained with the camera, with the orthographic images of the route.
- the camera comprises a stereo camera.
- a vehicle comprising the apparatus of the second aspect.
- a computer program element comprising: computer code means to make the computer execute a method according to the first aspect.
- Figure 1 is a graph illustrating the percentage of image features matched by a camera against a previous survey of a 700m route
- Figure 2(a) is a schematic illustration of a vehicle comprising apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 2(b) is a flow chart outlining the sequence of steps associated with a method according to an embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 3 is a schematic illustration of the notation used for a simple VO trajectory and scene ⁇ ; , whereby relative poses between frames are represented by arrows and lowercase l ⁇ 'xi, vehicle poses relative to Xi are represented by triangles and uppercase X.j and the location of a f observed landmark from pose Xj are represented by stars y ;
- Figure 4 illustrates the view h at pose ⁇ from the survey trajectory being projected onto a local ground plane to produce an orthographic image ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ ), with the road regions of interest ⁇ and ⁇ */ shown in blue;
- Figure 5 illustrates 10m segments of a synthetic local orthographic images generated from the 700m test route, with images (a) and (b) being generated from straight segments and image (c) being generated from part of a 90° corner;
- Figure 6 is a schematic illustration of a localisation framework, whereby the survey trajectory is shown in blue with vehicle nodes/poses X a subsequent traversal of the route localised against the survey trajectory is shown in red 't k , the current relative VO pose v k and subsequent corresponding seed for localisation 3 ⁇ 4 0 are indicated by dashed lines;
- Figure 7 is an illustration of a view alignment between the live view and hypothesised views and their corresponding values for mutual information, whereby the left view illustrates the hypothesised view at 't ko provided by v k , the middle view illustrates the live image I k and the right view illustrates the hypothesised view at the corrected pose '
- Figure 8(a) is a route around the Begbroke site which comprises approximately a 700m loop approximated SE2 corrections, (b) localised pose distances from survey trajectory.
- Figure 9(a) illustrates the difference in image intensities between a driver view In correctly localised relative to the survey trajectory and a hypothesised view proj ⁇ J n (Xi),'t k ) at % (white pixels correspond to larger differences in intensity), whereas figures 9(b), 9(c) and 9(d) illustrate the miss alignment and corresponding drop in Mutual Information by artificially perturbing the pose by
- Figure 10 illustrates driver views I ⁇ and associated hypothesised views proj ⁇ I % (Xi), 3 ⁇ 4 ) demonstrating cm level alignment at various points along the
- Figure 1 1 illustrates the objective function (Ml) convexity and robustness to partial occlusion, weather and lighting conditions - as the pose of the vehicle is shifted from it true value, the corresponding drop in Ml demonstrates convexity in all 6 degrees of freedom, plotted at 1cm and 0.2° intervals, respectively.
- FIGS 2a and 2b of the drawings there is illustrated an apparatus 100 and a method 200 for localizing a vehicle 300 along a route, such as along a road surface.
- the vehicle could be any type of vehicle that may be travelling through any environment, provided the environment comprises permanent/semi-permanent route features, such as a permanent/semipermanent road surface.
- the apparatus may be used to localise other transportable devices, such as hand held devices and robotic devices.
- the apparatus 100 comprises a camera, such as a stereo camera 101 having a first and second imaging portion 101 a, 101 b for imaging the route.
- the apparatus 100 further comprises a processor 102 for processing the images and a repository 103 for storing images of the route.
- the route is first surveyed at step 201 to create a plurality of orthographic images of the route.
- the vehicle 300 is subsequently passed along the route and the camera 101 , mounted to a front bumper 104 of the vehicle 300, is arranged to acquire a live view of the route from the perspective of the vehicle 300 at step 202.
- the processor 102 subsequently processes the live view at step 203 according to a computer program element at step 204, to resolve the pose of the vehicle 300 relative to a survey trajectory, by maximising a relation between the orthographic images and the live camera view.
- the repository is mounted within the apparatus on the vehicle, however, it is to be appreciated that the repository may alternatively be disposed at a remote site and communicatively coupled with the processor via a communications link 105. It is envisaged that this would facilitate updates to be made to the route images centrally, in accordance with further surveys of the route, so that all vehicles which traverse the route can access the most up-to-date images of the route.
- a vehicle trajectory T as generated by a visual odometry (VO) system, such as a stereo camera, is a set of relative SE3 transformations 3 ⁇ 4 + ; between consecutive vehicle poses X The relative transform between ⁇ and X +] is written as 3 ⁇ 4 + ;.
- VO visual odometry
- N ⁇ 1 ⁇ 4v ⁇ is a trajectory of N vehicle poses.
- X may also comprise a vehicle node rather than as a pose, the reason being that one can imagine as a chain graph of nodes linked by relative transformations. Each node in the graph has one or more 3D landmark features attached to it.
- the h landmark attached to vehicle node i is denoted as The function L(Xi) is used to represent the act of producing a local metric scene M; around Xi which contains a set of local vehicle nodes and all attached landmarks in the frame of Xi ⁇ so ⁇ becomes the origin).
- a stereo camera 101 (Figure. 2a) mounted on a front bumper of the vehicle 300 is orientated such that a first imaging portion 101 a comprises a least half of the road surface, assuming the vehicle is traversing relatively smooth urban roads. This orientation ensures many landmark measurements correspond to points on the road surface aiding ground plane estimation. Based on the stereo camera's orientation a Region Of
- Interest (ROI) ⁇ [ ' V r i,.., ' V / ] in the second imaging portion 101 b, such as a left imaging portion, is set as a region likely to only contain road surface.
- ' V,- [w,v,l] T is a pixel location in homogeneous co-ordinates of the h vertex of the ROI.
- ⁇ ⁇ ,-., ⁇ ] is then the ROI projected onto the local ground plane around pose X.
- the camera frame rate of 20Hz coupled with the survey vehicle's velocity of approximately 20kph leads to adequate overlap between consecutive ⁇ • (road regions of interest projected onto the orthographic image ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ )).
- Results presented in this paper use a resolution of 5mm per pixel in ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ ) (Note that this resolution was chosen as a balance between accuracy and storage requirements, approx. 10MB/km). Examples of images ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ ) associated with the test route are shown in Figure. 5. The image alignment accuracy is of the order 10 "3 m and the images contain a high level of detail.
- the Stereo VO system provides a continual stream of estimates of the relative pose between camera frames v k . In the absence of any other knowledge this could be used to infer the trajectory open loop. If however the synthetic orthographic images can be leveraged to correct relative poses from the VO, then it would be possible to track the motion (stay localised) relative to the survey trajectory. Furthermore, if as a new stereo pair is presented, it would be possible to use v*to seed a guess for the transformation 3 ⁇ 4o between the new camera frame and the survey trajectory, for the example in Figure. 6, 0 would be expressed as
- the objective function used is based on Mutual Information (Ml). If 't k is known perfectly then the projection proj ⁇ J n (Xi),'t k ) (hypothesized view) of the road lying in ⁇ ⁇ (3 ⁇ 4) ⁇ the live view I k , would overlap completely. Conversely, if the pose is in error, the two views will not align and in particular will exhibit a markedly reduced amount of Ml. The optimisation therefore finds a relative pose 3 ⁇ 4 which maximises image alignment by maximising Ml (see Fig. 7). Note for normal operation images from the left stereo camera are used.
- the Ml is obtained by evaluating the Shannon entropy of the images individually 3 ⁇ C(I) and J ⁇ C(J*), and then evaluating the joint entropy 3 ⁇ C(I, I*).
- the entropy of a single image is a measure of how much information is contained within the image
- p n is the probability of a pixel in image / having intensity n.
- the joint entropy is defined by
- the Stereo VO has high metric accuracy over small distances ⁇ 10m, the deviation from the initial position estimates 't ko are relatively small, of the order of centimeters.
- Two approaches have been implemented for estimating 't k the first is a fast approximate SE2 and the second a full SE3 pose correction.
- the application domain is road vehicles so in the first approach to reduce complexity and increase speed 't k ⁇ s confined to in road plane motion, reducing the search space to SE2.
- the SE3 pose information is maintained which allows for a correction to rolling and pitching during cornering and accelerations respectively.
- the small search radius is exploited and a histogram filter is used to evaluate an approximation to eq. 14.
- the in plane motion approximation has the consequence of reducing the sensitivity of the matching step to high frequency image content, such as fine texture on the tarmac.
- Very small errors in pitch, roll or height cause misalignments which stop the matching process from leveraging this fine detail.
- the vehicle will typically operate in urban environments where the vast majority of roads have distinct road markings and so this was deemed to be an acceptable trade-off for speed.
- the histogram filter can fall into local minima. This can lead to errors in the estimations of which has the effect of pulling the trajectory off course.
- the difference between the corrected pose 3 ⁇ 4 in the survey trajectory and the initialisation from the Stereo VO 3 ⁇ 4 0 was first computed.
- e is greater than a threshold then the right imaging portion 101 a of the camera 101 is invoked, the localisation is performed on I k ,ri g ht and a check is made for consensus. If the pose estimates from both J kright and I k are commensurate, then the pose correction is adopted into the trajectory. If the pose estimates don't agree, then the match is ignored and 't ko is simply adopted into the trajectory. This is then repeated until matching can be reestablished. In essence when the image matching step fails the system falls back to raw VO and runs in Open Loop mode.
- the present inventors conducted experiments on data collected from an autonomous vehicle platform, such as that illustrated in figure 2a of the drawings.
- the vehicle 300 was equipped with a multitude of sensors (not shown) and 32 processor cores available for computation.
- the stereo VO camera comprises a Point Gray Bumblebee2, running at 640x480 at 20 fps and only 9 cores.
- the Stereo VO runs at frame rate on a single core.
- the localisation runs on 8 cores at a lower frequency, approximately 1 Hz, as correction is not required for every
- Figure 8(a) shows the 700m survey trajectory (blue) overlaid with a subsequent traversal localised against the survey in (green). It should be noted that although the subsequent traversal is commensurate with the survey trajectory they should not align perfectly. This is because the survey vehicle may have driven at different positions on the road . The pose distance from the survey trajectory should therefore vary, but be bounded as shown in Figure 8(b).
- Figure 8(a) also shows when the consistency check is active and the system runs in open loop, it can be seen that this occurs when there are no road markings present.
- the local metric accuracy of the Stereo VO system allows localisation to run in open loop mode until the matching process is successfully reestablished. For the route shown here, matching was available 70% of the time and the vehicle completed a full 700m loop of the site without any intervention or manual relocalisation as was required with feature based matching.
- the precision of the localisation is obtained by comparing localized images I k and the corresponding artificially perturbed hypothesised views proj I n (Xi), % ®C) where ⁇ is a perturbation of the order of centimetres.
- Figure 9 shows that by artificially perturbing the vehicle pose from its true value, a significant image misalignment and corresponding drop in Ml are observed.
- Figure 10 shows several frames taken from a subsequent traversal of the survey route localised using the above described method. From the difference images it can be seen that the two views are aligned to centimetre precision.
- Figure 1 1 demonstrates convexity, whereby the objective function (Ml) is plotted around a true pose for all 6 degrees of freedom. Solving for all six degrees of freedom with no in plane motion constraint allows the matching step to leverage much finer detail and high frequency image content such as texture in the tarmac.
- Figure 1 1 demonstrates how a significant peak and convexity is maintained in the Objective Function (Ml) at the correct pose under various conditions.
- the Mutual Information as a correlation measure is robust against partial road occlusions, varying lighting and weather conditions.
- solving for SE3 pose corrections is not real time.
- an OpenCL implementation has demonstrated to exhibit an increase in speed of two orders of magnitude.
- Solving for the full SE3 pose corrections will allow the localisation method to be used in less urban environments, will reduce the amount of time in Open Loop mode as well as the need for consensus checking as the matching process is more readily available on a wider variety of road surfaces.
- This work presents a methodology for generating and exploiting synthetic local orthographic images to achieve centimeter precision road vehicle localisation without any infrastructure or work space modification.
- the method improves accuracy by an order of magnitude on a previous method using off the shelf aerial images.
- Stereo VO is used to generate synthetic orthographic images from a survey vehicle which are far superior in terms of resolution and fidelity to available aerial images.
- the approach also facilitates the generation of orthographic images in areas unavailable to aerial photography such as under bridges, trees and covered areas. These images provide a high fidelity and stable template for view matching as unlike feature based systems the gross appearance of the road surface ahead of the vehicle is used.
- the approach also avoids all the tracking and data association required by feature based approaches. Centimeter level accurate localisation and pose tracking is demonstrated on a 700m trajectory as well as robustness to partial occlusion and varying weather and lighting conditions.
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