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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2016
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A machine vision system and method uses captured depth data to improve the identification of a target object in a cluttered scene. A 3D-based object detection and pose estimation (ODPE) process is use to determine pose information of the target object. The system uses three different segmentation processes in sequence, where each subsequent segmentation process produces larger segments, in order to produce a plurality of segment hypotheses, each of which is expected to contain a large portion of the target object in the cluttered scene. Each segmentation hypotheses is used to mask 3D point clouds of the captured depth data, and each masked region is individually submitted to the 3D-based ODPE.