A YARP-BASED ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR ROBOTIC VISION APPLICATIONS

Stefán Freyr Stefánsson, Björn Þór Jónsson, Kristinn R. Thórisson

2009

Abstract

The complexity of advanced robot vision systems calls for an architectural framework with great flexibility with regards to sensory, hardware, processing, and communications requirements. We are currently developing a system that uses time-of-flight and a regular video stream for mobile robot vision applications. We present an architectural framework based on YARP, and evaluate its efficiency. Overall, we have found YARP to be easy to use, and our experiments show that the overhead is a reasonable tradeoff for the convenience.

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in Harvard Style

Freyr Stefánsson S., Þór Jónsson B. and R. Thórisson K. (2009). A YARP-BASED ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR ROBOTIC VISION APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 65-68. DOI: 10.5220/0001773600650068


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Stefán Freyr Stefánsson and Björn Þór Jónsson and Kristinn R. Thórisson},
title={A YARP-BASED ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR ROBOTIC VISION APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={65-68},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001773600650068},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A YARP-BASED ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR ROBOTIC VISION APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Freyr Stefánsson S.
AU - Þór Jónsson B.
AU - R. Thórisson K.
PY - 2009
SP - 65
EP - 68
DO - 10.5220/0001773600650068