12,556 research outputs found
Hybrid Bayesian Eigenobjects: Combining Linear Subspace and Deep Network Methods for 3D Robot Vision
We introduce Hybrid Bayesian Eigenobjects (HBEOs), a novel representation for
3D objects designed to allow a robot to jointly estimate the pose, class, and
full 3D geometry of a novel object observed from a single viewpoint in a single
practical framework. By combining both linear subspace methods and deep
convolutional prediction, HBEOs efficiently learn nonlinear object
representations without directly regressing into high-dimensional space. HBEOs
also remove the onerous and generally impractical necessity of input data
voxelization prior to inference. We experimentally evaluate the suitability of
HBEOs to the challenging task of joint pose, class, and shape inference on
novel objects and show that, compared to preceding work, HBEOs offer
dramatically improved performance in all three tasks along with several orders
of magnitude faster runtime performance.Comment: To appear in the International Conference on Intelligent Robots
(IROS) - Madrid, 201
leave a trace - A People Tracking System Meets Anomaly Detection
Video surveillance always had a negative connotation, among others because of
the loss of privacy and because it may not automatically increase public
safety. If it was able to detect atypical (i.e. dangerous) situations in real
time, autonomously and anonymously, this could change. A prerequisite for this
is a reliable automatic detection of possibly dangerous situations from video
data. This is done classically by object extraction and tracking. From the
derived trajectories, we then want to determine dangerous situations by
detecting atypical trajectories. However, due to ethical considerations it is
better to develop such a system on data without people being threatened or even
harmed, plus with having them know that there is such a tracking system
installed. Another important point is that these situations do not occur very
often in real, public CCTV areas and may be captured properly even less. In the
artistic project leave a trace the tracked objects, people in an atrium of a
institutional building, become actor and thus part of the installation.
Visualisation in real-time allows interaction by these actors, which in turn
creates many atypical interaction situations on which we can develop our
situation detection. The data set has evolved over three years and hence, is
huge. In this article we describe the tracking system and several approaches
for the detection of atypical trajectories
Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis - A Survey
We review the work on data-driven grasp synthesis and the methodologies for
sampling and ranking candidate grasps. We divide the approaches into three
groups based on whether they synthesize grasps for known, familiar or unknown
objects. This structure allows us to identify common object representations and
perceptual processes that facilitate the employed data-driven grasp synthesis
technique. In the case of known objects, we concentrate on the approaches that
are based on object recognition and pose estimation. In the case of familiar
objects, the techniques use some form of a similarity matching to a set of
previously encountered objects. Finally for the approaches dealing with unknown
objects, the core part is the extraction of specific features that are
indicative of good grasps. Our survey provides an overview of the different
methodologies and discusses open problems in the area of robot grasping. We
also draw a parallel to the classical approaches that rely on analytic
formulations.Comment: 20 pages, 30 Figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotic
- …