Uncertainty Propagation in Model-Based Recognition.

Abstract

Building robust recognition systems requires a careful understanding of the effects of error in sensed features. Error in these image features results in a region of uncertainty in the possible image location of each additional model feature. We present an accurate, analytic approximation for this uncertainty region when model poses are based on matching three image and model points, for both Gaussian and bounded error in the detection of image points, and for both scaled-orthographic and perspective projection models. This result applies to objects that are fully three-dimensional, where past results considered only two-dimensional objects. Further, we introduce a linear programming algorithm to compute the uncertainty region when poses are based on any number of initial matches. Finally, we use these results to extend, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional objects, robust implementations of alignment interpretation-tree search, and transformation clustering. (AN)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA295642

Entities

People

  • D. W. Jacobs
  • T. D. Alter

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Detection
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Geometry
  • Identification
  • Linear Programming
  • Object Recognition
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Recognition
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Computer Vision.