An automated vision based on-line novel percept detection method for a mobile robot

  • Authors:
  • Xiaochun Wang;Xia Li Wang;D. Mitchell Wilkes

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

It is generally agreed that learning, either supervised or unsupervised, can provide the best possible specification of known classes and offer inference for outlier detection by a dissimilarity threshold from the nominal feature space. Novel percept detection can take a step further by investigating whether these outliers form new dense clusters in both the feature space and the image space. By defining a novel percept to be a pattern group that has not been seen before in the feature space and the image space, in this paper, a non-conventional approach is proposed for multiple-novel-percept detection problem in robotic applications. Based on a computer vision system inspired loosely by neurobiological evidence, our approach can work in near real time for highly sparse high-dimensional feature vectors extracted from image patches while maintaining robustness to image transformations. Experiments conducted in an indoor environment and an outdoor environment demonstrate the efficacy of our method.