{"title":"A new method for fast detection and pose estimation of texture-less industrial parts*","authors":"Ziqi Chai, Sheng Bi, Zhengya Guo, Z. Xiong","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600863","url":null,"abstract":"Estimation of the 6-Dof pose of 3d objects has been a hot research field for a long time. When robots and cameras are integrated into a system, the pose of the object can be estimated through the camera, and then the robot can be used to manipulate the object accurately. Traditional object pose estimation methods include the template-matching based method and invariant feature-based method. The method based on invariant features requires the extraction of invariant features from images with rich texture, so it is not suitable for texture-less parts, which are common in industrial applications. The template-matching method is based on edge and contour information, so it is more suitable for part detection and pose estimation of industrial applications. LINEMOD proposed by Hinterstoisser is a successful template matching method, which accelerates the template matching process through a specially designed storage structure. However, the template-based matching method generally adopts sliding window method and is very time-consuming in computation, which makes it impractical for robotic application. In this paper, we propose a new method, which combines Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) with LINEMOD algorithm. With this method, the detection and location of the object in the image can be archived quickly. Then the local image, instead of the whole image, is used for LINEMOD template matching. Experimental results show that, compared with the standard LINEMOD method, the pose estimation speed can be increased and consistent matching results can be obtained.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131593157","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":"Development of force sensing techniques for needle surgeries","authors":"Z. Mo, Weiliang Xu","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600861","url":null,"abstract":"Needle insertion into soft tissue often results in sudden rupture of tissue-layers, further leading to penetrations of adjacent multiple tissue-layers, which may cause damages to sensitive organs. To reduce needle placement error during surgery and give force feedback to surgeons, force sensors were widely used in needle applications in past decades. This paper reviews current force sensing mechanisms and latest needle sensing applications, including their capabilities, advantages and limitations. Among those sensing principles, optical force sensing methods show a great potential for needle sensing applications, especially in embedding applications under the surgical environments with MRI devices.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116570798","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":"Testing and Analysis of Migration Displacement of a Flared Stent Deployed in an Esophageal Swallowing Robot.","authors":"Dipankar Bhattacharya, Leo K. Cheng, Weiliang Xu","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600911","url":null,"abstract":"Dysphagia is one of the common suffering condition occurs in esophageal cancer (EC) patients. Implanting self-expanding metal stents in the esophagus is one of the most effective ways for the palliation of the malignant dysphagia. The stents are associated with a common problem known as stent migration (SM) in the esophagus which occurs due to the axial force applied by the peristaltic contractions. A softbodied esophageal swallowing robot (ESR) has been developed to mimic the human swallowing process. Peristalsis in the ESR was achieved by modelling the biological peristaltic wave contractions. This paper discuss a new methodology to test and analyse a newly designed flared stent and its migration on the esophageal swallowing robot. Stent migration tests were performed on the esophageal swallowing robot to determine the displacement of the stent from its initial position due to the effect of the travelling of the peristaltic contractile waves. It was observed that migration displacement increases with the number of peristalsis cycle until it reaches a saturation point where no further displacement occurs. It was also noted that by increasing the applied input pressure in the esophageal swallowing robot, the stent migration displacement becomes higher. The work discussed here also promises that a tool like esophageal swallowing robot can provide a passage for a better stent design which can illuminate the path of prevention of stent migration.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114942466","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":"Unsupervised Video Prediction Network with Spatio-temporal Deep Features","authors":"Beibei Jin, Rong Zhou, Zhisheng Zhang, Min Dai","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600864","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting the future states of things is an important performance form of intelligence and it is also of vital importance in real-time systems such as autonomous cars and robotics. This paper aims to tackle a video prediction task. Previous methods for future frame prediction are always subject to restrictions from environment, leading to poor accuracy and blurry prediction details. In this work, we present an unsupervised video prediction framework which iteratively anticipates the raw RGB pixel values in future video frames. Extensive experiments are implemented on advanced datasets — KTH and KITTI. The results demonstrate that our method achieves a good performance.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127622533","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":"A Configurable Data Acquisition System for Various Working Conditions","authors":"Haibing Lin, Zhisheng Zhang, Yiming Guo, Zhi-ming Ding","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600879","url":null,"abstract":"Data collection and analysis of product are causing more and more attention with the rapid development of intelligent manufacturing. Faced with the problem that data acquisition system cannot be used universally, researchers have a long way to go. This paper designed a configurable data acquisition system for automatic filling lines, and the system can be used in other working lines without changing the hardware. The system is based on ARM and consists of three parts: data acquisition, server and cloud platform. Data acquisition part is responsible for acquiring data and sending data to host computer. Server part is used for receiving data from host computer and saving it in the database. Cloud platform serves for users and provides data analysis. The hardware design and software design of the acquisition board are also analyzed, meanwhile the communication protocol is made to ensure the data transmission. The data acquisition has been realized in this system and the whole process is running smoothly without problem.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131411368","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}
Wanqi Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Haibin Cai, Honghai Liu
{"title":"Detection for Joint Attention Based on A Multi-sensor Visual System","authors":"Wanqi Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Haibin Cai, Honghai Liu","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600897","url":null,"abstract":"Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most common mental disorders in childhood, with a wide range and high risk. At present, there is no cure for autism. The symptoms associated with autism can be improved through early diagnosis and intervention. Joint Attention is an important paradigm in the diagnosis and intervention of ASD, the JA performance of child refers to the skill of following the eyes and fingers of others. This paper proposes an algorism based on a multi-sensor visual system, which gains the gaze of the child and transforms the Joint Attention detection into a geometric problem and proposes a solution. We conducted 20 rounds of Joint Attention testing on 10 non-ASD adults through this system and algorism, and achieved an accuracy of 97.94%.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116403515","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":"M2VIP 2018 TOC","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/m2vip.2018.8600903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/m2vip.2018.8600903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114292002","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":"Smart AGV System for Manufacturing Shopfloor in the Context of Industry 4.0","authors":"J. Theunissen, Hang Xu, R. Zhong, X. Xu","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600887","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing shopfloors are facing the challenges of synchronizing the internal logistics and production operations by making full use the real-time status of typical production objects. This paper introduces a smart automated guided vehicle (AGV) for easing the collaborations between typical workers and robots. The smart AGV system uses state of the art technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless communication standards. A demonstrative case from a near-life scenario is presented to evaluate the feasibility and practicality of the proposed system. Some discussions are also illustrated so that typical manufacturing companies could use this system when they are contemplating the Industry 4.0 enabled solutions in the near future for improving their entire production efficiency.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115300056","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":"A Soft Ring-shaped Actuator: FE Simulation and Motion Tracking","authors":"Yu Dang, M. Stommel, Leo K. Cheng, Weiliang Xu","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600836","url":null,"abstract":"A soft ring-shaped actuator is inspired by the human stomach. This actuator can contract inward, mimicking the movements of the human stomach. It can benefit the research field of medical science and food engineering. In this paper, we investigate the deformation of such actuator employing finite-element simulation and motion tracking. Simulations are carried out to examine the influence of different pressure on the performance of the actuator. Motion tracking system is applied to track the mid-points on the deformed surface when the actuator is under pressurisation. The results show that the actuator can achieve axisymmetric contraction when inflated. The principal movements of mid-points are on the horizontal plane, whereas the change in the axial direction is negligible. This investigation can benefit the understanding of the profile of the deformed membrane and the construction of the mathematical modelling.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116993588","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":"Multiple Object Localization in Underwater Wireless Communication Systems using the Theory of Gravitation","authors":"R. A. Khalil, N. Saeed, T. Jan, M. Ashraf","doi":"10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/M2VIP.2018.8600876","url":null,"abstract":"Localization of underwater objects has always been a challenging task due to the unguided and misty nature of the underwater environment. Therefore, in this paper, a novel algorithm has been proposed to find the correct location of various underwater objects in real-time underwater communication networks. The proposed algorithm is based on collective utilization of gravity field vector and gravity gradient tensor signals for object localization. It computes the localization of numerous underwater objects in a non-linear scenario by utilizing modified Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The study uses single-object localization scenario to carry out estimation of the initial coordinates and mass calculation of the underwater objects. In order to validate the proposed algorithm, two objects based artificial navigation model has been used for testing purpose. The results obtained were precise and accurate, hence, the proposed method is a good strategy to localize multiple underwater objects.","PeriodicalId":365579,"journal":{"name":"2018 25th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP)","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126127726","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}