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Object detection
Visually detecting objects within an image
 
Object detection

After writing the optical flow and segmentation routines for the vision system of my Rodney robot I've now combined the two algorithms to form an object detection system.

The fundamental assumption is that parts of the image which are moving in approximately the same manner usually belong to the same object. Of course this isn't always true, but as a general commonsense rule it holds most of the time.

At the moment the combined method merely highlights areas of the image which it thinks belong to the same object. It doesn't actually carry out any recognition of the identified areas, but that is the logical next step.

http://www.fuzzgun.btinternet.co.uk/rodney/vision.htm

- Bob

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Saturday 24 August, 16:01
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