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The recent debate in the RoboCup middle-size community about natural light conditions shows that a more in-depth analysis of the problems incurred by this is necessary in order to draft out a focused and realistic roadmap for research. Based on real-world images taken under varying lighting conditions, we performed descriptive and statistical analysis of the effects on color-based vision routines. The results show that pure color-based image processing is not likely to perform well under varying lighting conditions, even if the vision system is calibrated on a per-game base. We conclude that color-based vision has to be combined with other methods and algorithms in order to work robustly in more difficult environments with varying illumination.
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Mayer, G., Utz, H., Kraetzschmar, G.K. (2004). Playing Robot Soccer under Natural Light: A Case Study. In: Polani, D., Browning, B., Bonarini, A., Yoshida, K. (eds) RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII. RoboCup 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25940-4_21
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