On Modeling Ego-Motion Uncertainty for Moving Object Detection from a Mobile Platform

In this paper, we propose an effective approach for moving object detection based on modeling the ego-motion uncertainty and using a graph-cut based motion segmentation. First, the relative camera pose is estimated by minimizing the sum of reprojection errors and its covariance matrix is calculated using a first-order errors propagation method. Next, a motion likelihood for each pixel is obtained by propagating the uncertainty of the ego-motion to the Residual Image Motion Flow (RIMF). Finally, the motion likelihood and the depth gradient are used in a graph-cut based approach as region and boundary terms respectively, in order to obtain the moving objects segmentation. Experimental results on real-world data show that our approach can detect dynamic objects which move on the epipolar plane or that are partially occluded in complex urban traffic scenes.