Classifying dynamic objects

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Luber;Kai O. Arras;Christian Plagemann;Wolfram Burgard

  • Affiliations:
  • Department for Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 79110;Department for Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 79110;Department for Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 79110;Department for Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 79110

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

For robots operating in real-world environments, the ability to deal with dynamic entities such as humans, animals, vehicles, or other robots is of fundamental importance. The variability of dynamic objects, however, is large in general, which makes it hard to manually design suitable models for their appearance and dynamics. In this paper, we present an unsupervised learning approach to this model-building problem. We describe an exemplar-based model for representing the time-varying appearance of objects in planar laser scans as well as a clustering procedure that builds a set of object classes from given observation sequences. Extensive experiments in real environments demonstrate that our system is able to autonomously learn useful models for, e.g., pedestrians, skaters, or cyclists without being provided with external class information.