A study on Realization of Intuitive and Appropriate Navigation environments using only scenery image

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20860021
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	System engineering
Research Institution	Saitama University
Principal Investigator	KIM Jeyeon Saitama University, 大学院・理工学研究科, 助教 (50510062)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,185,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,450,000、Indirect Cost: ¥735,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,456,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,120,000、Indirect Cost: ¥336,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,729,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,330,000、Indirect Cost: ¥399,000)
Keywords	高度交通システム
Research Abstract	This research describes a study on realization of intuitive and appropriate navigation environments using only scenery image. To realize these environments, we propose a markerless positioning system. The proposal system carries out the positioning by matching the inputted image from a vehicle-mounded camera and the database that has the position information. We carry out the quantitative evaluation about the positioning precision and the performance evaluation on an open road. Furthermore, we discuss the processing time of the proposal system and the size of the database.