Sickness Reduction in FPV Drone Control: Improved Effects of Reverse Optical Flow with Static Landmarks Only
PubDate:Oct 2023
Teams: Korea University
Writers:Jun Ryu,Seunghoon Park,Gerard Jounghyun Kim
Abstract
Drones are controlled remotely through the on-board live camera often using a headset to immersively (without external distraction) situate the drone operator with a first-person view. The highly dynamic imagery of drone piloting can elicit significant VR sickness. In this poster, we demonstrate the application of mixing the reverse optical flow pattern into the drone piloting imagery for mitigating VR sickness, using only the features of the static landmarks in the scene. We compare it to the cases of applying no mitigation technique (baseline) and mixing in the optical flow pattern from “all” object features. The results show that the suggested method was significantly more effective in reducing sickness than when considering all object features, and had a higher preference for improved visibility and controllability.
