Image processing on an omni-directional view using a spherical hexagonal pyramid: vanishing points extraction and hexagonal chain coding

Author

Kimuro, Yoshihiko ; Nagata, Tadashi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Commun. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

5-9 Aug 1995

Firstpage

356

Abstract

The authors have proposed a new data structure for an omni-directional view. That is a spherical hexagonal pyramid which has pyramid- and tree-type structures. Such structures manipulate hierarchical and multi-resolution representations of data and it seems useful for mobile robots and manipulators in an assembling task. Because these robots and manipulators have to observe various directions and to utilize image processing for achieving their purposes. This paper describes two methods for observing environment and objects with the aim of confirming of efficiency of this data structure. One is to extract great circles and vanishing points. The information is used for estimating some coordinate systems in an artificial world. And the other is to recognize objects by use of hexagonal chain codes

Keywords

assembling; data structures; graph theory; image matching; manipulators; mobile robots; robot vision; assembling task; data structure; hexagonal chain coding; hierarchical representations; manipulators; mobile robots; multi-resolution representations; omni-directional view; pyramid-type structures; spherical hexagonal pyramid; tree-type structures; vanishing points extraction; Data mining; Data structures; Image coding; Image processing; Image recognition; Manipulators; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Robotic assembly;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems 95. 'Human Robot Interaction and Cooperative Robots', Proceedings. 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1995.525909

Filename

525909