Real-time detection of colored objects in multiple camera streams with off-the-shelf hardware components

  • Authors:
  • Christoph H. Lampert;Jan Peters

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria 3400;Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany 72076

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We describe RTblob, a high speed vision system that detects objects in cluttered scenes based on their color and shape at a speed of over 800 frames/s. Because the system is available as open-source software and relies only on off-the-shelf PC hardware components, it can provide the basis for multiple application scenarios. As an illustrative example, we show how RTblob can be used in a robotic table tennis scenario to estimate ball trajectories through 3D space simultaneously from four cameras images at a speed of 200 Hz.