The development of any robotics application relying on visual information always raises the key question of what image features would be most informative about the motion to be performed. In this paper, we address this question in the context of visual robot positioning, where a neural network is used to learn the mapping between image features and robot movements, and global image descriptors are preferred to local geometric features. Using a statistical measure of variable interdependence called Mutual Information, subsets of image features most relevant for determining pose variations along each of the six degrees of freedom (dof's) of camera motion are selected. Four families of global features are considered: geometric moments, eigenfeatures, Local Feature Analysis vectors, and a novel feature called Pose-Image Covariance vectors. The experimental results described show the quantitative and qualitative benefits of performing this feature selection prior to training the neural network: Less network inputs are needed, thus considerably shortening training times; the dof's that would yield larger errors can be determined beforehand, so that more informative features can be sought; the order of the features selected for each dof often accepts an intuitive explanation, which in turn helps to provide insights for devising features tailored to each dof. ; This work was supported by the project 'Navegación basada en visión de robots autónomos en entornos no estructurados.' (070-724). This research has been partially supported by the research grant CICYT TAP97-1209 of the Spanish Science and Technology Council. ; Peer Reviewed
Assessing image features for vision-based robot positioning
2001-01-01
doi:10.1023/A:1008198321503
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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