Automatic Object Recognition within an Office Environment

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  • CRV '04 Proceedings of the 1st Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
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  • 2004

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Abstract

The visionary goal of an easy to use service robot impliessome key features like spatial cognition, speech understandingand object recognition. Therefore such a systemneeds techniques to identify objects in scenes, i.e. to assignthe natural category (e.g. "door", "chair", "table") tonew objects based on their prototypical geometry.Our approach uses 2{1 \over 2} D laser range data to recognizebasic objects like chairs or tables within an office environment.It is based on the concept of affordances; establishedon the work about form and function we identify certaingeometries that lead to certain functions and therefore allowtheir identification. Our approach currently is restrictedto basic objects but not limited to a special form. This isachieved by spatial abstraction where we assign the data tothree layers. In identifying components in these layers of altitude,we reconstruct the basic form of the object, concludeits function and finally determine the object.