Fast color-based object recognition independent of position and orientation

  • Authors:
  • Martijn van de Giessen;Jürgen Schmidhuber

  • Affiliations:
  • IDSIA, Manno, Lugano, Switzerland;TU Munich, Garching, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICANN'05 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks: biological Inspirations - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Small mobile robots typically have little on-board processing power for time-consuming vision algorithms. Here we show how they can quickly extract very dense yet highly useful information from color images. A single pass through all pixels of an image serves to segment it into color-dependent regions and to compactly represent it by a short list of the average hues, saturations and color intensities of its regions; all other information is discarded. Experiments with two image databases show that in 90 % of all cases the remaining information is sufficient for a simple weighted voting algorithm to recognize objects shown in query images, independently of position and orientation and partial occlusions.