Robot Pose Estimation in Unknown Environments by Matching 2D Range Scans

A mobile robot exploring an unknown environment has no absolute frame of reference for its position, other than features it detects through its sensors. Using distinguishable landmarks is one possible approach, but it requires solving the object recognition problem. In particular, when the robot uses two-dimensional laser range scans for localization, it is difficult to accurately detect and localize landmarks in the environment (such as corners and occlusions) from the range scans.In this paper, we develop two new iterative algorithms to register a range scan to a previous scan so as to compute relative robot positions in an unknown environment, that avoid the above problems. The first algorithm is based on matching data points with tangent directions in two scans and minimizing a distance function in order to solve the displacement between the scans. The second algorithm establishes correspondences between points in the two scans and then solves the point-to-point least-squares problem to compute the relative pose of the two scans. Our methods work in curved environments and can handle partial occlusions by rejecting outliers.     

3D human pose estimation in motion based on multi-stage regression

3D human pose estimation in motion is a hot research direction in the field of computer vision. However, the performance of the algorithm is affected by the complexity of 3D spatial information, self-occlusion of human body, mapping uncertainty and other problems. In this paper, we propose a 3D human joint localization method based on multi-stage regression depth network and 2D to 3D point mapping algorithm. First of all, we use a single RGB image as the input, through the introduction of heatmap and multi-stage regression to constantly optimize the coordinates of human joint points. Then we input the 2D joint points into the mapping network for calculation, and get the coordinates of 3D human body joint points, and then to complete the 3D human body pose estimation task. The MPJPE of the algorithm in Human3.6 M dataset is 40.7. The evaluation of dataset shows that our method has obvious advantages.     

Coarse head pose estimation of construction equipment operators to formulate dynamic blind spots

Several hundred workers die in construction in the United States every year because equipment operators are unable to see their fellow workers during operation of their vehicle. In this paper we propose a step towards improving this situation by providing an automated method based on range imaging for estimating the coarse head orientation of a construction equipment operator. This research utilizes commercially-available low resolution range cameras to measure the continuously changing field-of-view (FOV) of an equipment operator in outdoor construction. This paper presents a methodology to measure so-called dynamic blind spot maps. The dynamic blind spot map is then projected on a known static equipment blind spot map that already exists to each construction vehicle. A robust computational coarse head pose estimation algorithm and results to three different pieces of construction equipment and multiple operators are presented. The developed method has the potential in automatically determining the spaces around vehicles that are currently not in the field-of-view of the vehicle operator thus providing eventually additional means and technology for improving safety in construction.     

Face detection based on skin color likelihood

We propose a face detection method based on skin color likelihood via a boosting algorithm which emphasizes skin color information while deemphasizing non-skin color information. A stochastic model is adapted to compute the similarity between a color region and the skin color. Both Haar-like features and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) features are utilized to build a cascaded classifier. The boosted classifier is implemented based on skin color emphasis to localize the face region from a color image. Based on our experiments, the proposed method shows good tolerance to face pose variation and complex background with significant improvements over classical boosting-based classifiers in terms of total error rate performance.     

Camera calibration in sport event scenarios

The main goal of this paper is the design of a novel and robust methodology for calibrating cameras from a single image in sport scenarios, such as a soccer field, or a basketball or tennis court. In these sport scenarios, the only references we use to calibrate the camera are the lines and circles delimiting the different regions. The first problem we address is the extraction of image primitives, including the challenging problems of shaded regions and lens distortion. From these primitives, we automatically recognise the location of the sport court in the scene by estimating the homography which matches the actual court with its projection onto the image. This is achieved even when only a few primitives are available. Finally, from this homography, we recover the camera calibration parameters. In particular, we estimate the focal length as well as the position and orientation in the 3D space. We present some experiments on models and real courts which illustrate the accuracy of the proposed methodology.     

跨文化交际中的词汇空缺现象分析

语言是跨文化交流中最主要的手段,而词汇又是语言中最活跃的因素。由于受各自民族文化的影响,在跨文化交际过程中,会出现词汇空缺现象,给跨文化交际带来障碍。研究词汇空缺现象,了解并掌握造成词汇空缺现象的原因,明白其内涵,就可以避免在跨文化交际中产生误解,减少障碍,从而使跨文化交际得以顺利进行。     

基于无衍射光的轴承孔位姿测量系统与光路分析

设计出一套以无衍射光为基准的轴承孔位姿测量系统,以便对轴承孔的位姿进行测量,详细阐述了该系统的工作原理与设计方案,并通过ZEMAX软件对光路进行仿真与优化,并对其像差进行了详细分析。     

几何约束下TIG焊焊枪姿态研究

火箭发动机关键部件自动TIG焊中，因一些焊缝周围有特殊结构，为避免相碰，只能使焊枪偏转一个角度进行焊接，且此焊枪姿态与表征电弧电压的弧长和钨极伸出长度等有一定的关系，为了易于离线编程，必须对焊枪姿态进行深入分析。以火箭发动机典型的几何约束焊缝为例，提出了通用的求解思路。实际应用表明，此方法结果正确，可应用到各种几何约束焊缝的焊枪姿态分析中。     

Particle filters and occlusion handling for rigid 2D–3D pose tracking

In this paper, we address the problem of 2D–3D pose estimation. Specifically, we propose an approach to jointly track a rigid object in a 2D image sequence and to estimate its pose (position and orientation) in 3D space. We revisit a joint 2D segmentation/3D pose estimation technique, and then extend the framework by incorporating a particle filter to robustly track the object in a challenging environment, and by developing an occlusion detection and handling scheme to continuously track the object in the presence of occlusions. In particular, we focus on partial occlusions that prevent the tracker from extracting an exact region properties of the object, which plays a pivotal role for region-based tracking methods in maintaining the track. To this end, a dynamical choice of how to invoke the objective functional is performed online based on the degree of dependencies between predictions and measurements of the system in accordance with the degree of occlusion and the variation of the object’s pose. This scheme provides the robustness to deal with occlusions of an obstacle with different statistical properties from that of the object of interest. Experimental results demonstrate the practical applicability and robustness of the proposed method in several challenging scenarios.     

采用草绘轮廓的3维人脸建模方法

为方便用户进行3维人脸形状设计,提出一种基于手绘轮廓的3维人脸建模方法。该方法的主要特点在于,一方面,引用姿态估计技术对人脸草图进行解析,将用户绘制的侧视人脸草图转换成对应的正视人脸草图,可支持用户选择多个视角绘制人脸;另一方面,采用多层映射机制建立人脸草图特征点与3维人脸特征点之间的一一对应关系,由对应特征点之间的形变量来控制生成3维人脸,保证草图笔画的几何形状信息能有效映射到3维模型中。实验结果表明,文中方法能快速生成形状新颖的特定人脸,可有效支持用户进行3维人脸形状的手绘建模。