Abstract

This paper presents a new visual motion cue, we call the Visual Threat Cue (VTC) that provides some measure for a relative change in range as well as clearance between a 3D surface and a fixing observer in motion. The VTC corresponds to visual fields surrounding a moving observer. The fields are time-based imaginary 3-D surfaces that move with the observer. They are analogous to equi-potential fields of an electric dipole. A practical method to extract the VTC is presented. The approach is independent of the 3D surface texture and needs no optical flow information, 3D reconstruction, segmentation, feature tracking or pre-processing. This algorithm to extract the VTC was applied to several indoor as well as outdoor real images of textures, where we observed a similar behavior for most of the textures employed.

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