Using curvature to distinguish between surface reflections and vessel contents in computer vision based recognition of materials in transparent vessels
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چکیده
The recognition of materials and objects inside transparent containers using computer vision has a wide range of applications, ranging from industrial bottles filling to the automation of chemistry laboratory. One of the main challenges in such recognition is the ability to distinguish between image features resulting from the vessel’s surface and image features resulting from the material inside the vessel. Reflections and the functional parts of a vessel’s surface can create strong edges that can be mistakenly identified as corresponding to the vessel contents, and cause recognition errors. The ability to evaluate whether a specific edge in an image stems from the vessel’s surface or from its contents can considerably improve the ability to identify materials inside transparent vessels. This work will suggest a method for such evaluation, based on the following two assumptions: 1) Areas of high curvature on the vessel surface are likely to cause strong edges due to changes in reflectivity, as is the appearance of functional parts (e.g. corks or valves). 2) Most transparent vessels (bottles, glasses) have high symmetry (cylindrical). As a result the curvature angle of the vessel’s surface at each point of the image is similar to the curvature angle of the contour line of the vessel in the same row in the image. These assumptions, allow the identification of image regions with strong edges corresponding to the vessel surface reflections. Combining this method with existing image analysis methods for detecting materials inside transparent containers allows considerable improvement in accuracy.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1506.00168 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015