Robotics

Perception

Terms

7 terms

  • Camera calibration

    Camera calibration estimates a camera's intrinsic, distortion and extrinsic parameters so a robot can turn image pixels into accurate geometric measurements.

  • Object recognition

    Object recognition in robotics is the perception task of identifying which known objects appear in sensor data and where they are, so a robot can act…

  • Point cloud

    A point cloud is a set of 3D points sampled from surfaces, which robots use in perception to map scenes, detect obstacles and locate objects.

  • Sensor fusion

    Sensor fusion combines data from several robot sensors into one estimate of state or surroundings that is more accurate and reliable than any single source.

  • SLAM

    SLAM, simultaneous localization and mapping, lets a robot build a map of an unknown environment while estimating its own position within that map.

  • Stereo vision

    Stereo vision recovers depth from two cameras a known distance apart by matching points and measuring disparity, a core technique in robot perception.

  • Visual odometry

    Visual odometry is a robot perception method that estimates how a camera moves through space by tracking changes between consecutive camera images.