Research on the effect of image size on real-time performance of robot vision positioning

• Main Authors: Desheng Lyu, Heyang Xia, Chen Wang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018-10-01
• Series: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
• Subjects: SURF algorithm; Visual localization; Image size; Image shape
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13640-018-0328-0

Abstract In order to improve the real-time performance of visual positioning of the indoor mobile robot, the researchers found that the shape and size of the positioned image have a great influence on the real-time performance of the positioning calculation. In order to verify the conclusion and find the appropriate image shape and size to meet the robot’s visual positioning requirements, this paper adopts four different shapes, such as quadrilateral and circular, and uses SURF algorithm to extract and recognize the features of the image. The effect of image shape and size on real-time localization is studied from two aspects: the localization of different shape models under the same size by the visual robot and the localization of the different shape models by the visual robot. It is found that the accuracy and real time of positioning squares and circles are higher than the accuracy and real time of positioning triangles and hexagons under the same size. And when the image size ratio is between 40 and 60% of the original image, the change of the number of feature points is relatively stable and the number of feature points is moderate. It can improve the real-time performance of mobile robot vision localization under the premise of a certain positioning accuracy.