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dc.contributor.advisorLatecki, Longin
dc.creatorAdluru, Nagesh
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-20T13:33:14Z
dc.date.available2020-10-20T13:33:14Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.other864884558
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/638
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding machine vision can certainly improve our understanding of artificial intelligence as vision happens to be one of the basic intellectual activities of living beings. Since the notion of computation unifies the concept of a machine, computer vision can be understood as an application of modern approaches for achieving artificial intelligence, like machine learning and cognitive psychology. Computer vision mainly involves processing of different types of sensor data resulting in "perception of machines". Perception of machines plays a very important role in several artificial intelligence applications with sensors. There are numerous practical situations where we acquire sensor data for e.g. from mobile robots, security cameras, service and recreational robots. Making sense of this sensor data is very important so that we have increased automation in using the data. Tools from image processing, shape analysis and probabilistic inferences i.e. learning theory form the artillery for current generation of computer vision researchers. In my thesis I will address some of the most annoying components of two important open problems viz. object recognition and autonomous navigation that remain central in robotic, or in other words computational, intelligence. These problems are concerned with inducing computers, the abilities to recognize and navigate similar to those of humans. Object boundaries are very useful descriptors for recognizing objects. Extracting boundaries from real images has been a notoriously open problem for several decades in the vision community. In the first part I will present novel techniques for extracting object boundaries. The techniques are based on practically successful state-of-the-art Bayesian filtering framework, well founded geometric properties relating boundaries and skeletons and robust high-level shape analyses Acquiring global maps of the environments is crucial for robots to localize and be able to navigate autonomously. Though there has been a lot of progress in achieving autonomous mobility, for e.g. as in DARPA grand-challenges of 2005 and 2007, the mapping problem itself remains to be unsolved which is essential for robust autonomy in hard cases like rescue arenas and collaborative exploration. In the second part I will present techniques for merging maps acquired by multiple and single robots. We developed physics-based energy minimization techniques and also shape based techniques for scalable merging of maps. Our shape based techniques are a product of combining of high-level vision techniques that exploit similarities among maps and strong statistical methods that can handle uncertainties in Bayesian sense.
dc.format.extent191 pages
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTemple University. Libraries
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dc.subjectComputer Science
dc.subjectContour Grouping
dc.subjectMultirobot Mapping
dc.subjectObject Recognition
dc.subjectParticle Filters
dc.subjectRobot Mapping
dc.titleTechniques for Extracting Contours and Merging Maps
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dc.type.genreThesis/Dissertation
dc.contributor.committeememberLakaemper, Rolf
dc.contributor.committeememberVucetic, Slobodan
dc.contributor.committeememberSobel, Marc J.
dc.description.departmentComputer and Information Science
dc.relation.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/620
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dc.description.degreePh.D.
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