Image-Based Satellite-Roadway-Vehicle Integration for Informatic Vicinity Generation

A new framework is presented for integrating satellite/avionics sensors with onboard vision for expanding the horizon of perception. Real time bindings of the bird´s eye image and the driver´s view via GPS provides informatic vicinity for supporting in situ decision processes. As the invariant feature for multi-viewpoint association, chromatic complexity of roadway texture is extracted from frontal scene and adapted to the bird´s eye imagery. The feasibility of the framework with requirements for vision system is discussed through simulation and experimental studies