Jintae Kim, Youngmin Kim, Natnael S. Zewge, Jong-Hwan Kim
{"title":"A Robust Client-Server Architecture for Map Information Processing and Transmission for Distributed Visual SLAM","authors":"Jintae Kim, Youngmin Kim, Natnael S. Zewge, Jong-Hwan Kim","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932869","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a framework for distributed processing and transmission of key frames and map points, which are components of a sparse map built with feature based visual SLAM frameworks. The developed framework uses a client-server architecture that makes it possible to separate the map and key frame components of the visual SLAM for communication in real-time. We devise a mechanism to minimize the communication bottleneck that is encountered when transmitting map points.The implementation of transmitting map is generally a band-width intensive process. The designed architecture provides excellent overall map quality even in scenarios where map objects are lost in the communication process. We perform simulation based verifications and real world examples to illustrate the validity and robustness of our architecture. Our architecture provides the first such system to process and transmit full map information from client to server in real-time without sacrificing robustness.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114756602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging UAV Applications in Agriculture","authors":"Lebsework Negash, Ho-Yeon Kim, Han-Lim Choi","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932853","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is impacting the agriculture sector hence heavy threatening global food security. Farmers have to adapt and introduce technologies to enhance their decision making using reliable, accurate and timely information. Unlike the expensive satellites, UAVs equipped with a set of specific sensors and instruments have a huge potential supporting agriculture in evidence-based planning and spatial data collection. Thus, the overall goal of this paper is to provide a panoramic about the current status of the emerging use of UAVs in the Agriculture area and present a generic example in one of the application areas with system design and component selection. Key Word: Multispectral Camera, NDVI mapping, precision agriculture","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125167674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-Domain Knowledge Transfer for Incremental Deep Learning in Facial Expression Recognition","authors":"Nehemia Sugianto, D. Tjondronegoro","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932731","url":null,"abstract":"For robotics and AI applications, automatic facial expression recognition can be used to measure user’s satisfaction on products and services that are provided through the human-computer interactions. Large-scale datasets are essentially required to construct a robust deep learning model, which leads to increased training computation cost and duration. This requirement is of particular issue when the training is supposed to be performed on an ongoing basis in devices with limited computation capacity, such as humanoid robots. Knowledge transfer has become a commonly used technique to adapt existing models and speed-up training process by supporting refinements on the existing parameters and weights for the target task. However, most state-of-the-art facial expression recognition models are still based on a single stage training (train at once), which would not be enough for achieving a satisfactory performance in real world scenarios. This paper proposes a knowledge transfer method to support learning using cross-domain datasets, from generic to specific domain. The experimental results demonstrate that shorter and incremental training using smaller-gap-domain from cross-domain datasets can achieve a comparable performance to training using a single large dataset from the target domain.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121256342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jin-Woo Jung, Byung-Chul So, Jin-Gu Kang, Woo-Jin Jang
{"title":"Circumscribed Douglas-Peucker Polygonal Approximation for Curvilinear Obstacle Representation","authors":"Jin-Woo Jung, Byung-Chul So, Jin-Gu Kang, Woo-Jin Jang","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932794","url":null,"abstract":"ECD (Exact Cell Decomposition) based path planning is not applicable in curvilinear obstacles environment. Therefore, after the curvilinear obstacles are approximated to the polygons by using DP (Douglas-Peucker) algorithm, which is a polygon approximation algorithm, the ECD method is applied. However, there is a case of not including all the existing obstacles' area and ignoring the outer area, when it comes to the curvilinear obstacles, approximated to the polygons by using the DP algorithm. In this case, path planning of ECD method cannot guarantee the clearance. This paper proposes a CDP (Circumscribed DP) algorithm to solve this problem. The CDP algorithm has a disadvantage of having more inner area than the DP algorithm, but it can guarantee the clearance because of the fact the algorithm always has 0(%) of outer area (OA). In order to confirm this, the polygonal approximation of DP and CDP algorithms was compared in the same curvilinear obstacles and the result was as the following: When each ε value is 0.05, 0.08, 0.11(m), each result of the inner area ratio (IA) was 2.45, 4.89, 7.19(%) by DP algorithm, 16.3, 18.39, 32.58(%) by CDP algorithm, and result of the outer area ratio (OA) was 0.7, 1.17, 1.54(%) by DP Algorithm, 0, 0, 0(%) by CDP Algorithm. Also, it can be confirmed that the CDP algorithm has always guaranteed for clearance.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116533940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Platform for Understanding Physical Prior & Task Learning","authors":"Namrata Sharma, Chang Hwa Lee, Sang Wan Lee","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932889","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, many reinforcement learning algorithms within the field of robotics have demonstrated considerable performance in multiple physical environment tasks. However, their learning patterns are very different from those of humans. Humans develop their prior knowledge about the physical world and utilize it in task learning to learn effectively. On the other hand, in the case of general machine learning algorithms, tasks are performed without prior knowledge, thus creating a difference between humans and robots in their initial stages of learning. In order to reconcile this difference, it is necessary to study the learning and utilization of prior knowledge in reinforcement learning algorithms. To accomplish this, we propose a platform that integrates prior knowledge learning into task learning environments, and then we show configuration and application examples to emphasize the necessity and usability of this platform.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128082731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RiTA 2019 Title Page","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ritapp.2019.8932897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ritapp.2019.8932897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127175348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robot Social Emotional Development through Memory Retrieval*","authors":"Ha-Duong Bui, Thi Le Quyen Dang, N. Chong","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932912","url":null,"abstract":"Robot emotion representation is gaining increasing attention to facilitate long-term human-robot interaction (HRI) in recent years. In particular, human-like robot emotion elicited through HRI is of great use in creating trust between humans and robots. In attempting to represent robot emotions that lead to gaining social acceptance, psychological studies of human emotion have been extensively performed. Among the various factors that affect the way people express their emotional competencies, we conjecture that two factors, social interaction and experience, can be considered important to elicit human emotions, and therefore can be used to represent robot emotions. We believe that social and developmental interaction paradigms, such as social sharing and social referencing, can shape robot emotions toward promoting social acceptance. Besides, the robot’s previous experience can be a key factor contributing to robot personality formation and development. In this paper, we not only focus on the modeling of two eliciting factors affecting the formation of robot emotion but also examine the decline of memory retention over time. Specifically, the relationship between emotion and memory is investigated to design a filter for the memory consolidation process and memory forgetting mechanism. The mechanism is used to enhance robot memory performance based on emotional salience and time parameters. Experiments were performed with a humanoid robot Pepper having verbal and non-verbal interactions with 24 human subjects. Participants rate their perception of the robot in terms of human-likeness, likeability, safety, and emotional expressions through a questionnaire. The results showed that most of the participants enjoyed interacting with the robot and they wished they could have more interactions in the future. They perceived safety and responded favorably toward the robot emotional expressions.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130077348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Bedruz, Jose Martin Z. Maningo, A. Fernando, A. Bandala, R. R. Vicerra, E. Dadios
{"title":"Dynamic Peloton Formation Configuration Algorithm of Swarm Robots for Aerodynamic Effects Optimization","authors":"R. Bedruz, Jose Martin Z. Maningo, A. Fernando, A. Bandala, R. R. Vicerra, E. Dadios","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932871","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a flocking and formation algorithm adapted from the flocking behavior of cycling team or pelotons. Several multi agent applications require efficient positioning of the agents in static and dynamic tasks. It was verified physically that an optimal distance in a peloton formation, the agents take reduced drag due to the inherent drag resistant characteristic of the formation. The said conditions were implemented in an algorithm in a swarm of wheeled robots. Experiment results show that the optimal distance between agents were attained. It was shown that the adaptation of peloton behavior in artificial agents brought efficient formation and foraging trajectories and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121957718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-channel Classification Resonance Network*","authors":"Joonhyuk Kim, Gyeong-Moon Park, Jong-Hwan Kim","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932859","url":null,"abstract":"A fusion ARTMAP is an online incremental supervised learning algorithm with multiple input channels. Whenever the ARTMAP receives labeled data, it can learn the data instantly. The fusion ARTMAP, however, is not robust to noise, which means the network predicts the wrong classes from noisy inputs. To solve this problem, we propose a multi-channel classification resonance network (MCRN). MCRN consists of two phases. In the first phase, the network maintains multiple channels without concatenating the inputs. In the second phase, the network identifies the inputs near the decision boundaries and reclassifies them by employing multi-layer perceptron (MLP) networks of which weights are trained by a back-propagation algorithm. A parallel match tracking process in MCRN finds the inputs near the decision boundaries. Two-channel classification simulations are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of MCRN for multi-channel cases. The simulation results show that the performance of MCRN is better than that of the fusion ARTMAP for artificial data sets.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"490 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125887265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"D-ALICE: Domain Adaptation-based Labeling the human In Cartoon imagE","authors":"Hyungho Kim, Hyeon Cho, O. Choi, Wonjun Hwang","doi":"10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RITAPP.2019.8932847","url":null,"abstract":"How did Alice, who went to the Wonderland, solve the problems? In this paper, as Alice solved problems by changing the size of her body in the Wonderland, we classified the person by changing the style using the image translation technique for the cartoon image in pretrained segmentation model. In general, when you test a cartoon image on a pretrained segmentation model based on real image, the results do not appear correctly. To solve this problem, the ground truth for new images should be created and newly trained. This approach is costly and time consuming. So, we propose a method based on domain adaptation to label the human in cartoon image (D-ALICE) without training a new segmentation model by transforming images using a CycleGAN-based model that can be trained with an unpaired dataset. The quantitative and qualitative evaluation of pre and post conversion images resulted from the segmentation model trained as MIT ADE20K were conducted, and the mean-IoU was increased by more than 35%. The results of this research can be applied to other domains without newly training the deep learning model, and furthermore it can help to provide the ground truth for the data which does not have ground truth which does not have before.","PeriodicalId":234023,"journal":{"name":"2019 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125324265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}