Robot Localization using Soft Object Detection

This video shows a particle-filter-map-based localization using "soft" object detection. Soft object detection differs from "hard" object detection in that we do not extract an "affirmative/negative" response about the presence of the object but rather we compute, for each pixel in the current frame, the probability that the object under consideration is there. This gives raise to many false positive (see the multiple peaks in the object "heat-map") that are disambiguated during motion by the particle filter.

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• particle filter
• localization
• sebastian thrun
• probabilistic robotics
• robots
• computer vision
• camera
• ladybug Robot Robotics