开源工具箱,安全测试无人机视觉导航能力。
ViVa-SAFELAND: a New Freeware for Safe Validation of Vision-based Navigation in Aerial Vehicles
- 用真实城市视频模拟无人机飞行,虚拟相机按指令移动。
- 支持自动着陆与动态障碍物检测,可重复对比不同算法。
- 适合研究者、开发者和自动驾驶飞行员训练使用。
ViVa-SAFELAND 是一个开源软件库,用于测试和评估空中飞行器的视觉导航策略,特别关注自主着陆,并符合法律法规与人员安全要求。它包含一系列高分辨率的航拍视频,聚焦真实非结构化城市场景,记录车辆、行人等运动障碍物。通过实现一个带有虚拟移动相机的模拟空中飞行器(EAV),可在视频中按高阶指令“导航”。该框架提供了一个安全、简单且公平的基准,用于在相同条件下评估和比较不同视觉导航方案,并能随机化多个试验变量。它还促进自主着陆与导航策略开发,以及为不同训练任务生成图像数据集。此外,可用于训练人类或自主飞行员。通过两个案例研究(运动物体检测与风险评估分割)验证了其有效性。据我们所知,这是首个同类安全验证框架,可用于复杂真实场景下空中飞行器视觉导航方案的测试与对比,对城市部署至关重要。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
ViVa-SAFELAND is an open source software library, aimed to test and evaluate vision-based navigation strategies for aerial vehicles, with special interest in autonomous landing, while complying with legal regulations and people's safety. It consists of a collection of high definition aerial videos, focusing on real unstructured urban scenarios, recording moving obstacles of interest, such as cars and people. Then, an Emulated Aerial Vehicle (EAV) with a virtual moving camera is implemented in order to ``navigate" inside the video, according to high-order commands. ViVa-SAFELAND provides a new, safe, simple and fair comparison baseline to evaluate and compare different visual navigation solutions under the same conditions, and to randomize variables along several trials. It also facilitates the development of autonomous landing and navigation strategies, as well as the generation of image datasets for different training tasks. Moreover, it is useful for training either human of autonomous pilots using deep learning. The effectiveness of the framework for validating vision algorithms is demonstrated through two case studies, detection of moving objects and risk assessment segmentation. To our knowledge, this is the first safe validation framework of its kind, to test and compare visual navigation solution for aerial vehicles, which is a crucial aspect for urban deployment in complex real scenarios.
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