Generating Panoramic Top-view Images along Railway Tracks using Forward-facing Train Footage

Abstract

Railways are laid out with facilities scattered along the tracks. Therefore, human resources are required to check the status of such facilities. We have been developing a system that supports the maintenance of facilities along railway lines using video footage captured from the front of the train. In this paper, we propose a novel method to generate a more natural top-view image by changing the composition method. Although it is difficult to generate a top-view image of the entire running range of a train by generating a panoramic image, we confirm that our method can successfully generate a top-view image of the entire train run.