Towards a method to compare and to evaluate fast pixel gathering mechanisms for real time robotic vision systems

Taking into account the constraints of mobile and autonomous robotics, and the tasks devoted to the vision system embedded on different robots for various applications, we propose a research in matter of fast pixel gathering mechanisms for the connected component extraction and the color region segmentation. In this work, we studied three different mechanisms, and proposed a new method to compare and to evaluate the algorithms according to two criteria: the speed of processing and the quality of the results for robotic applications. This method allows to choose the most appropriate algorithm for a given robotic application, and to create new algorithms, by hybridizing older ones while keeping interesting properties.