Fast color/texture segmentation for outdoor robots

We present a fast integrated approach for online segmentation of images for outdoor robots. A compact color and texture descriptor has been developed to describe local color and texture variations in an image. This descriptor is then used in a two-stage fast clustering framework using K-means to per...

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Published in2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems pp. 4078 - 4085
Main Authors Blas, M.R., Agrawal, M., Sundaresan, A., Konolige, K.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2008
Subjects
Clustering algorithms
Filter bank
Histograms
Image color analysis
Image segmentation
Pixel
Robots
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Summary:We present a fast integrated approach for online segmentation of images for outdoor robots. A compact color and texture descriptor has been developed to describe local color and texture variations in an image. This descriptor is then used in a two-stage fast clustering framework using K-means to perform online segmentation of natural images. We present results of applying our descriptor for segmenting a synthetic image and compare it against other state-of-the-art descriptors. We also apply our segmentation algorithm to the task of detecting natural paths in outdoor images. The whole system has been demonstrated to work online alongside localization, 3D obstacle detection, and planning.
ISBN:9781424420575
1424420571
ISSN:2153-0858
2153-0866
DOI:10.1109/IROS.2008.4651086