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Active Random Forests: An Application to Autonomous Unfolding of Clothes

  • Andreas Doumanoglou
  • Tae-Kyun Kim
  • Xiaowei Zhao
  • Sotiris Malassiotis
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8693)

Abstract

We present Active Random Forests, a novel framework to address active vision problems. State of the art focuses on best viewing parameters selection based on single view classifiers. We propose a multi-view classifier where the decision mechanism of optimally changing viewing parameters is inherent to the classification process. This has many advantages: a) the classifier exploits the entire set of captured images and does not simply aggregate probabilistically per view hypotheses; b) actions are based on learnt disambiguating features from all views and are optimally selected using the powerful voting scheme of Random Forests and c) the classifier can take into account the costs of actions. The proposed framework is applied to the task of autonomously unfolding clothes by a robot, addressing the problem of best viewpoint selection in classification, grasp point and pose estimation of garments. We show great performance improvement compared to state of the art methods.

Keywords

Active Vision Active Random Forests Deformable Object Recognition Robotic Vision 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Andreas Doumanoglou
    • 1
    • 2
  • Tae-Kyun Kim
    • 1
  • Xiaowei Zhao
    • 1
  • Sotiris Malassiotis
    • 2
  1. 1.Imperial College LondonLondonUK
  2. 2.Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)ThessalonikiGreece

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