Recent work combining robotics with vision has emphasized an active vision paradigm where the system changes the pose of the camera to improve environmental knowledge or to establish and presence a desired relationshi...
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Recent work combining robotics with vision has emphasized an active vision paradigm where the system changes the pose of the camera to improve environmental knowledge or to establish and presence a desired relationship between the robot and objects in the environment. Much of this work has concentrated upon the active observation of objects by the robotic agent. In this paper we present extensions to the controlled active vision framework that focus upon the autonomous grasping of a moving or static object in the manipulator's workspace. Our work extends the capabilities of an eye-in-hand system beyond those as a "pointer" or a "camera orienter" to provide the flexibility required to robustly interact with the environment in the presence of uncertainty. The proposed work is experimentally verified using the Minnesota robotic visual tracker to automatically select object features, to derive estimates of unknown environmental parameters, and to supply a control vector based upon these estimates to guide the manipulator in the grasping of a moving or static object.
This paper presents a framework for the automatic visual detection of moving objects in robotic servoing tasks. The paper describes a "figure/ground" scheme which is able to perform detection without making ...
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This paper presents a framework for the automatic visual detection of moving objects in robotic servoing tasks. The paper describes a "figure/ground" scheme which is able to perform detection without making many assumptions that would limit the generality of the approach. We describe optimizations which allow for real-time execution of the frame-differencing that is the basis of our framework. Experimentation has demonstrated that the results of the visual detection can provide information helpful in focusing attention on a specific subset of objects. Furthermore, we show how the detection technique can be integrated with existing methods for visual tracking. We mention some details that have been addressed in order to apply these theories to an actual robotic system, including the use of an optimal controller Our paper explains how this framework has been implemented in our experimental robotic system MRVT, and it describes several results obtained from this experimentation.
We present additions to the controlled active vision framework that focus upon the autonomous grasping of a moving object in the manipulator's workspace. Our work extends the capabilities of an eye-in-hand robotic...
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We present additions to the controlled active vision framework that focus upon the autonomous grasping of a moving object in the manipulator's workspace. Our work extends the capabilities of an eye-in-hand robotic system beyond those as a "pointer" or a "camera orienter" to provide the flexibility required to robustly interact with the environment in the presence of uncertainty. The proposed work is experimentally verified using the Minnesota Robotic Visual Tracker (MRVT) to automatically select object features, to derive estimates of unknown environmental parameters, and to supply a control vector based upon these estimates to guide the manipulator in the grasping of a moving object. The system grasps objects in the manipulator's workspace without requiring the object to follow a specific trajectory and without requiring the object to maintain a specific orientation.
Proposes a simple and powerful approach for texture classification using the eigenfeatures of local covariance measures. A texton encoder produces a texture code which is invariant to local and global textural rotatio...
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We present a new off-line word recognition system that is able to recognise unconstrained handwritten words from their grey-scale images, and is based on structural and relational information in the handwritten word. ...
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In order to solve the speed problem and shallow reasoning problem met in current research in fault diagnosis expert system, this paper presents a model based parallel fault diagnosis expert system for energy managemen...
Proposes a simple and powerful approach for texture classification using the eigenfeatures of local covariance measures. A texton encoder produces a texture code which is invariant to local and global textural rotatio...
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Proposes a simple and powerful approach for texture classification using the eigenfeatures of local covariance measures. A texton encoder produces a texture code which is invariant to local and global textural rotations. The proposed method uses six statistical features obtained from two scales of this invariant encoder to result in indices for roughness, anisotropy, and other higher-order textural features. Classification results for synthetic and natural textures are presented. The authors also discuss the effect of window sizes used at local and global scales on the performance of the classifier.< >
We present a new off-line word recognition system that is able to recognise unconstrained handwritten words from their grey-scale images, and is based on structural and relational information in the handwritten word. ...
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We present a new off-line word recognition system that is able to recognise unconstrained handwritten words from their grey-scale images, and is based on structural and relational information in the handwritten word. We use Gabor filters to extract features from the words, and then use an evidence-based approach for word classification. A solution to the Gabor filter parameter estimation problem is given, enabling the Gabor filter to be automatically tuned to the word image properties. Our experiments show that the proposed method achieves reasonably high recognition rates compared to standard classification methods.< >
This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of signature recognition. We introduce the use of revolving active deformable models as a powerful way of capturing the unique characteristics of a signature's s...
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This paper presents a novel approach to the problem of signature recognition. We introduce the use of revolving active deformable models as a powerful way of capturing the unique characteristics of a signature's silhouette. Experimental evidence shows that the silhouette of a signature uniquely determines the signature in the majority of cases. The objective of our method is to recognize signatures based on the spatial properties of the signature boundaries. Our active deformable models originate from the snakes introduced to computervision by Kass et al. (1987), but their implementation has been tailored to the task at hand. These computer-generated models interact with the virtual gravity field created by the image gradient. Ideally, the uniqueness of this interaction mirrors the uniqueness of the signature's silhouette. The proposed method obviates the use of a computationally expensive segmentation approach and yields satisfactory results regarding performance, without compromising the accuracy rate. Interestingly, the active deformable models have been implemented in such a way, that the method is potentially fully parallelizable. The experiments performed with a signature database show that the proposed method is promising.< >
Accurate knowledge of depth continues to be of critical importance in robotic systems. Without accurate depth knowledge, tasks such as inspection, tracking, grasping, and collision-free motion planning prove to be dif...
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Accurate knowledge of depth continues to be of critical importance in robotic systems. Without accurate depth knowledge, tasks such as inspection, tracking, grasping, and collision-free motion planning prove to be difficult and often unattainable. Traditional visual depth recovery has relied upon techniques that require the solution of the correspondence problem or require known lighting conditions and Lambertian surfaces. In this paper, we present a technique for the derivation of depth from feature points on a target's surface using the controlled active vision framework. We use a single visual sensor mounted on the end-effector of a robotic manipulator to automatically select feature points and to derive depth estimates for those features using adaptive control techniques. Movements of the manipulator produce displacements that are measured using a sum-of-squared difference (SSD) optical flow. The measured displacements are fed into the controller to alter the path of the manipulator and to refine the depth estimate.< >
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