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We presented an application of SURF operator and epipolar constraint for stereo matching of binocular citrus images. First, R-B space images were achieved by linear transform of original images' color space. Second, fast Hessian-matrix detector was used to detect the interest points and the SURF descriptor was used to describe the points' features. Finally, Euclidean distance and the epipolar constraint...
This paper provides an intuitive way to inference the space of a scene using stereo cameras. We first segmented the ground out of the image by adaptively learning the ground model in the image. We then used the convex hull to approximate the scene space. Objects within the scene can also be detected with the stereo cameras. Finally, we organized the scene space and the objects within the scene into...
We investigate the existence of computationally inexpensive first and second order statistics that uniquely describe grass for application in an autonomous lawnmower. We then segment images based on these statistics to determine locations of driveable terrain in an image. Tight statistical clustering of illuminated grass versus artificial texture suggests that this method is sufficient for identifying...
The work presented here describes a novel vision-based motion detection system for telerobotic operations. The system uses a CCD camera and image processing to detect the motion of a master robot or operator. Color tags are placed on the arm and head of a human operator to detect the up/down, right/left motion of the head as well as the right/left motion of the arm. The motion of the color tags are...
Dependable 3D perception modules are essential for safe operation of robotic platforms. Furthermore, robot navigation and localization as well as object recognition tasks also require processing 2D color camera images. This information could be synchronously delivered by stereo vision sensors with the 3D information automatically mapped onto the 2D camera image. However, embedded real-time stereo...
The detecting and tracking a specific person by using the image processing with the color camera is often influenced by illumination changes. The proposed robust detecting and tracking method to illumination changes is using the HSV color space and updating the histogram. However, the quantitative evaluating is not enough in the proposed method. In this paper, the robustness to illumination changes...
This manuscript describes an implementation of a system that can adaptively cope with the task of robust colour identification in the domain of robot soccer. The main challenge is to perform this in an environment of changing light conditions and/or cameras used. The camera setup is first characterised using common techniques from colour management with ICC profiles. In a second step current light...
This paper proposes a new method of pest detection and positioning based on binocular stereo to get the location information of pest, which is used for guiding the robot to spray the pesticides automatically. The production of agricultural cultivation in greenhouse requires of big quantities of pesticides for pest control. Pesticides application is a major component of plant production costs in greenhouse,...
One important feature of a cognitive system is to perceive and understand its environment and to adapt its actions to changes and unforeseen situations. In this paper, we propose a scheme for visual surprise detection in cognitive mobile robots. With the robot's observation and a set of reference images previously acquired near its current viewpoint, a pixel-wise surprise trigger is computed using...
In many societies, the aged people are often living alone. For the aging population, surveillance in household environments has become more and more important. In this paper, we present a household surveillance robot that can detect abnormal events by utilizing video and audio information. In our approach, moving targets can be detected by the robot with a passive acoustic location device. Then the...
This paper presents an illumination adaptive color object recognition method for robot soccer match. Generally, the colors are identified by referring to the pre-defined bounds for the components of each color. However, it is not an easy work to define non-interfered bounds for different colors, and the bounds are sensitive to illumination conditions. Instead, in this work, different colors are discriminated...
The tasks of autonomous rescue robots operating in unknown environments are manifold. Self localization, map generation and the detection of possible victims are indespensable. Apart from these, other factors can become crucial for the survival of the involved persons and for the safe operation of the robot itself. A first step in autonomously detecting such dangers is the real-time recognition of...
Doors are important landmarks for indoor mobile robot navigation. Most existing algorithms for door detection use range sensors or work in limited environments because of restricted assumptions about color, pose, or lighting. We present a vision-based door detection algorithm that achieves robustness by utilizing a variety of features, including color, texture, and intensity edges. We introduce two...
A markerless multiple-camera vision-based 3D human tracking method for industrial environments is presented. The method can track humans in the vicinity of moving robots without using skin color cues or articulated human models. It is robust to self-occlusions and to partial occlusions caused by the robot. Foreground pixels corresponding to humans are found by background subtraction. A convex polyhedron...
When dealing with humanoid vision, it is very important to take into account the velocity and complexity of the algorithms. This paper presents an efficient combination of basic algorithm with quadratic complexity. Our real time procedure gives an excellent representation of the 3D scene. This 3D reconstruction allows the humanoid to maneuver, as well as the robotic manipulation of objects.
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