Easy acquisition of range image dataset for object detection using retroreflective markers and a time-of-flight camera: An application to detection of forklift pallets

Kenji Terabayashi*, Ibuki Takashima, Yushi Suzuki, Atsushi Hinami, Tohru Sasaki

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Abstract

This paper proposes a method to make dataset of range images for object detection without manual indication to locate a bounding box of a target object. In the proposed method, retroreflective markers are put on the target object for indicating the object’s position. The marker position in range images can be easily detected as the same position in infrared images which are simultaneously captured by a time-of-flight camera because the marker has quite bright intensity in the infrared images. The detected marker position substitutes for manual pointing of the target object. The proposed method was applied to detection of forklift pallet. A range image dataset that consists of 62,400 positive and negative samples was made without manual pointing of the target pallet in range images. This dataset was used as training data of a classifier detecting a forklift pallet. The three-dimensional position of a pallet was measured as a demonstration of pallet detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics - Volume II, 2019
EditorsBaoyan Duan, Kazunori Umeda, Woonbong Hwang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1001-1005
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9789813294400
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event7th Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics, AISM 2019 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: 2019/09/192019/09/22

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume589
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference7th Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics, AISM 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period2019/09/192019/09/22

Keywords

  • Dataset
  • Range image
  • Retroreflective marker

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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