Real-Time Ellipse Detection for Robotics Applications

02/25/2021
by   Azarakhsh Keipour, et al.
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We propose a new algorithm for real-time detection and tracking of elliptic patterns suitable for real-world robotics applications. The method fits ellipses to each contour in the image frame and rejects ellipses that do not yield a good fit. It can detect complete, partial, and imperfect ellipses in extreme weather and lighting conditions and is lightweight enough to be used on robots' resource-limited onboard computers. The method is used on an example application of autonomous UAV landing on a fast-moving vehicle to show its performance indoors, outdoors, and in simulation on a real-world robotics task. The comparison with other well-known ellipse detection methods shows that our proposed algorithm outperforms other methods with the F1 score of 0.981 on a dataset with over 1500 frames. The videos of experiments, the source codes, and the collected dataset are provided with the paper.

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