MDU, in collaboration with several other universities, plans to join the World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC), where in certain sub-challenges some object detection is necessary. Such as for detecting objects such as boats, buoys, and possibly other items. Utilizing a camera system could significantly aid in these tasks, and in this research, an omnidirectional camera is proposed. This is a camera that offers a wide field of view of 360 degrees and could provide comprehensive information about the boat’s surroundings. However, these images use a spherical camera model, which projects the image on a sphere and, when saved to a 2D format, becomes very distorted. To be able to use state-of-the-art vision algorithms for object detection and tracking, this research proposes to project these images to other formats. As such, four systems using object detection and tracking are made that uses different image representation projected from the spherical images. One system uses spherical images and is used as a baseline, while the three remaining systems use some form of projection. The first is cubemap projection, which projects the spherical image to a cube and unfolds this image on a 2D plane. The two other image representations used perspective projections, which are when the spherical image is projected to small sub-images. The two image representations that used perspective projections had 4 and 8 perspective images. None of the systems ultimately performed very well but did have some advantages and disadvantages.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-63155 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Asmussen, Edvin |
| Publisher | Mälardalens universitet, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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