Reliable Recovery of Piled Box-like Objects via Parabolically Deformable Superquadrics

  • Authors:
  • Dimitrios Katsoulas

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Automatic unloading of piled box-like objects is undoubtedlyof great importance to the industry. In this contributiona system addressing this problem is described: Weemploy a laser range finder for data acquisition, and globallydeformable Superquadrics [2], [22] for object modeling.Our technique is based on a hypothesis generation andrefinement scheme. The vertices of the piled objects are extractedand Superquadric seeds are aligned at these vertices.The model parameter recovery task is decomposedinto two subproblems, each dealing with a subset of themodel's parameter set. Both region and boundary based informationsources are used for parameter estimation. Comparedto a widespread strategy for superquadric recovery[11], our method shows advantages in terms of robustnessand computational efficiency. In addition, our system exhibitsversatility with regard to existing industrial systems,since it can effectively deal with both neatly placed and jumbledconfigurations of objects