STEREO IMAGE BASED COLLISION PREVENTION USING THE CENSUS TRANSFORM AND THE SNOW CLASSIFIER

Christian Küblbeck, Roland Ach, Andreas Ernst

2005

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach for a mobile robot to avoid obstacles by using a stereo-camera system mounted on it. We use the “census transformation” to generate the features for the correspondence search. We train two SNoW (Spare Network of Winnovs)-classifiers, one for the decision wether to move straight forward or to evade and a second one for deciding whether to turn left or right when evading. For training we use a sample set collected by manually moving around with the robot platform. We evaluate the performance of the whole recognition chain (feature generation and classification) using ROC-curves. Real world experiments show the mobile robot to safely avoid obstacles. Problems still arise when approaching steps or low obstacles due to limitations in the camera setup. We propose to solve this problem using a stereo camera system capable of pan and tilt movements.

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in Harvard Style

Küblbeck C., Ach R. and Ernst A. (2005). STEREO IMAGE BASED COLLISION PREVENTION USING THE CENSUS TRANSFORM AND THE SNOW CLASSIFIER . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-30-9, pages 447-454. DOI: 10.5220/0001184804470454


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco05,
author={Christian Küblbeck and Roland Ach and Andreas Ernst},
title={STEREO IMAGE BASED COLLISION PREVENTION USING THE CENSUS TRANSFORM AND THE SNOW CLASSIFIER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,},
year={2005},
pages={447-454},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001184804470454},
isbn={972-8865-30-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,
TI - STEREO IMAGE BASED COLLISION PREVENTION USING THE CENSUS TRANSFORM AND THE SNOW CLASSIFIER
SN - 972-8865-30-9
AU - Küblbeck C.
AU - Ach R.
AU - Ernst A.
PY - 2005
SP - 447
EP - 454
DO - 10.5220/0001184804470454