Appearance-Based Robot Discrimination Using Eigenimages

Transformation of high-dimensional images to a low-dimensional feature space using Eigenimages is a well known technique in the field of face recognition. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of this method to the task of discriminating several types of robots by their appearance only. After calculating suitable Eigenimages for Middle Size robots and selecting the most useful ones, a Support Vector Machine is trained on the feature vectors to reliably recognize several types of robots. The computational demands and the integration into a real-time vision system have an important role throughout the discussion.

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