A feasibility study of accurate 3D measurement of ships using dense stereo vision system

Rader is essential and widely used in order to obtain information around own ship and find other ships. And GPS and Gyro sensors indicate the location and attitude of own ship but not estimate other ones. These existing systems have some problems to be adapted to practical use in scenes like an automated reaching or leaving pier, passing in a narrow line, closing to other ships. The authors propose a dense stereo imaging system which accurately measures 3D locations and orientations of ships for an automated reaching or leaving pier system.