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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2017.21.6.1237

Study on object detection and distance measurement functions with Kinect for windows version 2  

Niyonsaba, Eric (Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University)
Jang, Jong-Wook (Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.21, no.6, 2017 , pp. 1237-1242 More about this Journal
Abstract
Computer vision is coming more interesting with new imaging sensors' new capabilities which enable it to understand more its surrounding environment by imitating human vision system with artificial intelligence techniques. In this paper, we made experiments with Kinect camera, a new depth sensor for object detection and distance measurement functions, most essential functions in computer vision such as for unmanned or manned vehicles, robots, drones, etc. Therefore, Kinect camera is used here to estimate the position or the location of objects in its field of view and measure the distance from them to its depth sensor in an accuracy way by checking whether that the detected object is real object or not to reduce processing time ignoring pixels which are not part of real object. Tests showed promising results with such low-cost range sensor, Kinect camera which can be used for object detection and distance measurement which are fundamental functions in computer vision applications for further processing.
Keywords
Depth segmentation; Distance measurement with kinect; Kinect depth sensor; Object detection;
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