Energy minimization approach for negative obstacle region detection

• Main Authors: Karunasekera, Hasith, Wang, Han, Zhang, Handuo
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Stereo Vision; Energy Minimization
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154478
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Obstacle detection is an important area of research for automatic robot navigation and obstacle avoidance. However, the main focus has been on detecting positive obstacles such as vehicles, pedestrians and anything above the ground plane. Equally important task is detecting negative obstacles such a...