1. Method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing analysis of a plurality of images of a view generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle, the method comprising: monitoring the images, each image comprising a plurality of pixels; identifying a set of interest points from the plurality of pixels in each of two images, the two images comprising a current image and a preceding image; matching pairs of interest points from the set of interest points from the current image and the set of interest points from the preceding image, wherein each of the matched pairs is estimated to correspond to a single viewed feature; filtering the matched pairs of interest points to select a preferential set of matched pairs; generating a three dimensional map of features in the view based upon the preferential set of matched pairs; and determining the clear path based upon the mapped features.