Towards real time vision based UUV navigation using GPU technology

Performance Evaluation of a Low-Cost Stereo Vision System for Underwater Object Detection

“…Vision can provide, when feasible, information at lower costs and with higher resolution and acquisition rate, compared to acoustic perception. Applications of underwater computer vision include detection and tracking of cables and pipelines for surveying (Narimani et al (2009)), image mosaicing to map seabeds (Nicosevici et al (2009)), monitoring of underwater plants and artifacts, recognition and observation of interesting objects like artificial structures or archaeological sites (Eustice et al (2005)), and localization and mapping in limited regions (Horgan et al (2009); Schattschneider et al (2011)). In Kim et al (2012) a vision-based object detection method is presented based on template matching and tracking for underwater robots using artificial objects.…”